RUGGEDCOM Media Converter

RUGGEDCOM Media Converters are part of our industrial network communications portfolio. The units are industrially hardened and specifically designed to operate reliably in electrically harsh and climatically demanding environments such as those found in electric utility substations and factory floors.

RUGGEDCOM Media Converters offer a wide range of benefits from reduced installation, configuration, and management costs to an improved ROI on legacy devices. They combine the advantages of conventional copper data cables with those of fiber optic cables providing copper-to-fiber, serial-to-fiber or serial-to-IP conversion and bridging the gap between copper and fiber-optic network segments.

Copper data cables are vulnerable to electromagnetic interference. Using RUGGEDCOM Media Converters ensures the data integrity and provides lossless and interference-free data transmission for mission critical applications.

RUGGEDCOM Media Converters link the flexibility of Ethernet devices to the spectrum of fiber optics.

• Media and speed conversion
• Serial (RS232/RS422/RS485) to fiber conversion
• Serial to Ethernet conversion including Modbus RTU to Modbus TCP conversion
• Immunity to electro-magnetic interference
• Industrial temperature range of –40 to 85 °C
• Simple Plug and Play Operation
• High Performance Ethernet Switching
• Link Pass Through support
• Configuration, operation and maintenance cost saving

Certified for use in diverse harsh industrial environments:

• IEC 61850-3 and IEEE 1613 (electric power)
• IEC 61000-6-2 (generic industrial)
• NEMA TS-2 (traffic control equipment)
• EN 50121-4 (railway)
• EN 50155 (on-board rail vehicles)