Ethernet switch technology in a coal mine

Coal mining is a valuable industry, and coal is used as a low cost, quality fuel for many power plants: Korenix Ethernet switches provide reliable communications to improve mine efficiency

Mining operations are being equipped with sophisticated industrial controls and sensors for safety and operations efficiency.

In mining applications, reliable communication between many wide spread locations and fast bandwidth equipments are required.

There is a company in Poland that operates a coal mine located in Silesia which chose Korenix switches and the Korenix Rapid Super Ring Redundancy Management Software to meet their application requirements.

They chose Korenix because of its flexible configuration of 5010G switches (it equips 3xSFP), Rapid Super Ring, with the fastest (5ms) recovery time for redundancy, and Gigabit Ethernet - to ensure future net efficiency.

Besides, they also have taken the Korenix serial device (JetPort 5604i) because of its easy way to connect serial devices (i.e tape loaders).

The use of Korenix Ethernet products in the mine has provided the customer with safe mining operations.

The Rapid Super Ring Redundancy Manager Software with Korenix Switches allows the customer to eliminate network downtime inside of the mine, keeping information flowing at all times and informing them when the mine conditions are safe for workers to enter the mine.

The aluminum case of the Korenix JetNet 5010G Switches is ideal for the mining environment, providing protection for the switch's internal electronics from dust and dirt.

The SFP configurability of the JetNet 5010G provides the customer with flexibility, in case future expansion is required.

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