Brand Technology Advantage: Hirschmann has rich experience in industrial networks, building the world’s first fibre-optic Ethernet in 1984, and launching the Ring Redundant Ethernet (HIPER – Ring) in 1990.

Its products are known for their reliability, and this media converter may use advanced technology to ensure stable and efficient data transmission, adapting to the complex needs of industrial environments.

Port Configuration and Connectivity: Common Hussmann media converters are equipped with a variety of ports, such as Ethernet ports and fibre optic ports. Ethernet ports may support 10/100/1000Base – T adaptive rate, can be easily connected to computers, industrial controllers and other devices, using standard Cat5e and above specification cable, the transmission distance up to 100 metres. Fibre optic ports, if available, may support single-mode and multi-mode fibre connection, multi-mode fibre in 50/125μm specifications, 1000Mbps transmission rate transmission distance of up to 550 meters; single-mode fibre using 1310nm wavelength, the transmission distance can be extended to several kilometres, to meet the needs of long distance, high bandwidth transmission.

Performance features: High-efficiency data conversion capability, can quickly and stably convert data between different network media. In the industrial automation production line, can ensure that the front-end sensor equipment through the optical fibre transmission of data, fast and accurate conversion into the back-end Ethernet equipment can receive the signal.

With high reliability and stability, the selection of high-quality industrial-grade electronic components, after rigorous screening and testing, can be such as the power industry substation of strong electromagnetic interference, metallurgical industry, high temperature furnace workshop, and other harsh industrial environments work stably.

Application Scenario: In the field of industrial automation, it can be used to connect the devices with different network media in the automated production line, such as connecting the high-speed sensors using optical fibre and the controller using Ethernet, to ensure the smooth transmission of data and improve the production efficiency.

In the intelligent traffic system, it can achieve a stable connection between traffic cameras (which may use optical fibre to transmit data) and the back-end data processing centre (which mostly uses Ethernet connection) to ensure the timely transmission and processing of traffic data. In the energy and power industry, it is suitable for the connection of all kinds of equipment in the substation, effectively converting data transmitted by different media to ensure the reliable operation of the power system.

Main functions of the media converter
Signal conversion: The ability to convert different types of network signals into each other, e.g. in industrial environments, optical signals transmitted by fibre optics are converted into Ethernet electrical signals and vice versa.

This enables devices that use fibre optics for long-distance, high-speed data transmission to communicate smoothly with devices that use Ethernet connections. For example, in a large factory campus, where production equipment forms a high-speed backbone network via optical fibre, and computers and other equipment in the office use Ethernet, the media converter can convert signals between the two to ensure that the data flow is transmitted.

Rate Adaptation: Support the connection between networks with different transmission rates. It can actively identify and match the rate of the connected devices, such as one end of the device’s transmission rate of 100Mbps, the other end of the 1000Mbps, the media converter can harmonise the data transmission between the two, to ensure the stability and compatibility of data transmission. In the process of upgrading the enterprise network, some of the old equipment rate is low, the new equipment rate is high, the media converter can make the different rates of equipment in the same network to work together.

Extend the transmission interval: Use the advantages of optical fibre transmission, useful to extend the network transmission interval. Single-mode optical fibre collaboration media converter, data transmission to several kilometres away, to solve the Ethernet twisted-pair transmission interval is limited (generally in the 100 m or so) of the problem. In ITS, traffic cameras are widely distributed, through the media converter and optical fibre, high-definition video data can be transmitted to the monitoring centre several kilometres away.

Network isolation and security enhancement: While converting signals, it can complete the isolation between different networks and enhance network security. It can block unnecessary network traffic and potential network infringement, to ensure the stable work of the network. In the power system, the media converter can isolate the network of different functional areas in the substation to avoid failure or infringement of discrete.

Protocol conversion (partially): In addition to the physical layer of the signal conversion, some media converters can also carry out a brief protocol conversion, so that different protocols of network equipment can communicate. For example, the Modbus TCP protocol network data into the PROFINET IO protocol recognised data format, to facilitate data interaction between devices of different protocols . In the industrial active production line, different brands and types of equipment may choose different protocols, this kind of media converter can complete the interconnection between the equipment.