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N-TRON Extends Rugged Line of Fully Managed Industrial Ethernet Switches with New Ultra Compact Models

Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010

Mobile, AL – March 3, 2010 - N-TRON Corporation, a global leader in Industrial Networking,
today announced the addition of six new models to its family of fully managed Industrial
Ethernet switches.

Housed in compact, hardened enclosures, the 709FX, 710FX2, 711FX3,712FX4, 714FX6 and 7010TX were designed to provide maximum performance in harsh industrial environments.

Product Highlights

• -40°C to 70°C Operating temperature
• Rugged DIN-Rail Enclosure
• ESD and Surge Protection Diodes on all Ports
• Redundant Power Inputs 10-49VDC
• Configurable Bi-Color Fault Status LED
• Store-and-forward Technology
• Onboard Temperature Sensor
• SD Memory Card Configuration Backup (optional)

"Our new compact products were designed to meet the rigorous requirements of wind farms,
utilities, including power substations, and other industrial process control applications where
noise immunity and support for longer distances are essential," said N-TRON President and
CEO, Warren Nicholson. "Up to 6 fibers ports in an incredibly small form factor provides the
ability to configure fiber rings and fiber uplinks, in a compact, very cost effective solution.
The 7010TX also supports gigabit fiber."

The new Industrial Ethernet switches feature N-TRON's comprehensive advanced management
suite including:

• N-Ring™ Technology with ~30ms Healing
• EtherNet/IP™ – CIP Messaging
• N-Link™ Redundant N-Ring Coupling
• DHCP Server, Option 82 relay, Option 61
• N-View™ OPC Monitoring
• Local Port IP Addressing
• Web Browser Management (Can be disabled)
• Configuration backup via Optional SD card
• Detailed Ring Map and Fault Location Charting
• RSTP
• SNMP v1, v2, v3
• DSCP
• IGMP Auto Configuration
• LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
• 802.1Q tag VLAN and Port VLAN
• 802.1p QoS and Port QoS
• 802.1d, 802.1w, 802.1D RSTP
• Port Trunking
• Port Mirroring
• CLI Interface

Pricing and Availability:

N-TRON's 709FX, 710FX2, 711FX3, 712FX4, 714FX6 and 7010TX Industrial Ethernet switches
are available through the company's worldwide network of distributors. For a list of distributors,
contact N-TRON at 251-342-2164 or visit our web site at www.n-tron.com.

709FX         Fully Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch with 8 auto sensing
                   10/100BaseTX Ports and (1) 100Base Fiber ports.                    Starting at $1,080 OEM price
            
710FX2        Fully Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch with 8 auto sensing
                   10/100BaseTX Ports and (2) 100Base Fiber ports.                     Starting at $1,370 OEM price
            
711FX3        Fully Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch with 8 auto sensing
                   10/100BaseTX Ports and (3) 100Base Fiber ports.                     Starting at $1,470 OEM price
            
712FX4        Fully Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch with 8 auto sensing
                   10/100BaseTX Ports and (4) 100Base Fiber ports.                     Starting at $2,240 OEM price
            
714FX6        Fully Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch with 8 auto sensing
                   10/100BaseTX Ports,and (6) 100Base Fiber ports.                     Starting at $2,810 OEM price
            
                    Both Single and Multimode Fiber configurations are available with SC or ST style connectors.

7010TX        Fully Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch with 8 auto sensing 10/100BaseTX Ports,
                    two SFP Mini-GBIC Expansion Slots support optional 500m Multimode Fiber,
                    10km Singlemode Fiber, 40km Singlemode Fiber, 70km Singlemode Fiber, or
                    1000BaseT Copper pluggable Mini-GBIC transceivers.              Starting at $1,100 OEM price

About N-TRON

N-TRON Corp. develops, manufactures, and markets highly reliable industrial network products,
designed to solve the most demanding communications requirements in mission critical industrial, data
acquisition, Ethernet I/O, and process control applications.

Globally recognized as a market leader in the Industrial Ethernet marketplace, N-TRON's products are
used throughout the world in a wide variety of applications including wind farms, solar energy, nuclear
power plants, wastewater treatment plants, maritime, transportation, process control, and security and
surveillance where reliability is an absolute necessity.

N-TRON is headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, with operations located throughout the United States,
Canada, EMEA, India and the Pacific Rim. N-TRON products are distributed in over 75 countries
worldwide.



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