Moxa's EDS-726 Gigabit Ethernet switch has been awarded the 'iF Product Design Award 2006' for its user-friendly, modular design. The 'iF Design Award' is a prestigious and distinguished design competition (often referred to as the 'design Oscars' by industries worldwide).
Nearly 2000 products from 37 different countries were entered in the iF design competition for 2006, which culminated in a 3-day judging session at the Hannover Exhibition Centre. Judges were chosen from an élite group of top international designers, giving end-users the assurance that the iF award represents a guarantee of outstanding product quality. The theme of this year's competition was 'Design, not marketing,' which reflects Moxa's own design philosophy of putting the needs of the end-user first.
According to Vincent Liu, chief product manager at Moxa, "Receiving such a prestigious award represents a big turning point for Moxa. We have had great success over the past several years with our high quality industrial Ethernet products, but we feel that the EDS-726 design is truly unique in that it gives end-users many high-powered options that previously were not available."
About EDS-726
EDS-726 is a 26-port Gigabit Ethernet switch that meets the demands of industrial applications, but also leaves room for expansion. EDS-726's modular convenience lets users add up to two Gigabit ports and 24 fast Ethernet ports in the same switch. The application-oriented design includes a tilted LED display for easy viewing, plus redundant and intelligent network management. EDS-726 provides more flexibility, reliability, and application-oriented functions to meet the demands of any harsh industrial application.
Key features
* Modular design with 26 copper and fibre ports.
* 60° tilted LED display for ergonomic viewing of operating status.
* Aluminium fin-shaped heatsink on rear panel for quick heat dissipation.
* Pluggable Compact Flash card simplifies backing up the configurations.
* Gigabit Turbo Ring redundancy with recovery time less than 300 ms at full load.
* QoS, IGMP snooping/GMRP, VLAN, LACP, and SNMP V1/V2C/V3 supported.
Moxa Networking is part of the Moxa Group, a conglomerate that manufactures device networking products for industrial automation.
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