(pressebox) (Klingenberg, 24.10.2011) PoE technology is a raising technology, not only in an office environment but also in industrial environment. Lantech Communications is providing one of the biggest series of PoE switches and is supporting this market development with a promotion until end of this year. Three industrial PoE switches can be purchased at all listed European distributors with a discount of 10%.

The promotion includes one 8 x 10/100 Mbps with 4 x PoE non managed switch. The special: This switch needs only 24VDC input voltage to provide the full PoE performance (15.4W / 48V).

Another non managed switch is working with 4 ports Gigabit and PoE+ with 30W output power per port. This switch has 2 Gigabit SFP ports and is offering a big variety of distances and connectors for the backbone. Both switches are designed to work in an extended temperature range from -40°C to 75°C.

The third switch is a full managed industrial Layer2+ switch with 8 x PoE ports (15.4W/port) and 2 uplink ports. The uplink ports can be used either as a 10/100/1000T copper connection or as 100/1000Mbps fiber connection. This means, redundant structures may be built and can significantly increase the safety of the network, even in surveillance and telephony environments.