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N-TRON Announces Distribution Alliance with Opto 22
Tuesday, Sep 22, 2009Mobile, AL – September 22, 2009, N-TRON Corporation, a global leader in Industrial Networking solutions, today announced a strategic marketing and sales agreement with California-based Opto 22, a top provider of control, remote monitoring and data acquisition solutions for industrial automation. As part of the agreement, Opto 22 will resell N-TRON’s industrial Ethernet switches and wireless access points to their customers.
“Opto 22 is well-known and respected in the automation and control industry with a rich history of innovation in the development of solid state relays and Ethernet-based I/O systems and controllers,” said Warren Nicholson, N-TRON CEO and President. “N-TRON industrial networking switches can be an essential part of any wired or wireless application. Our two company’s products complement each other perfectly and having them available through Opto 22 creates a single-source for engineers and other automation professionals looking for the components to solve process and machine control, monitoring, data acquisition, and networking communications challenges.”
Opto 22 Vice President of Sales Bob Sheffres is enthusiastic about the relationship stating, “we’re proud to offer these components as a compliment to our Ethernet-based controllers and I/O, and we feel confident that combined, these products are well-suited for standard Ethernet connected automation projects, as well as those that utilize wireless communication. N-TRON industrial Ethernet switches are counted among the industry’s most reliable networking devices. Independent testing by our own quality assurance team confirmed this.”
N-TRON’s managed switches should prove most beneficial to Opto 22 customers, largely due to the hardware’s impressive list of advanced features and functionality, which includes trunking, port mirroring and IGMP snooping—which provides faster/more streamlined/automatic multicast messaging by intelligently filtering and forwarding (and thus reducing) network traffic among devices.
Customers with applications in which Opto 22 hardware is communicating to Allen-Bradley PLCs, as they seek to route EtherNet/IP™ protocol-based multicast messages, will find the N-Tron switches’ IGMP snooping features particularly beneficial.
“The N-TRON hardware’s IGMP snooping functionality is by far the best we’ve seen,” says Bryce Nakatani, Quality Assurance Engineer at Opto 22. Their managed switches provide very high levels of ‘leak-proof’ throughput, making them ideal for building network architectures that include our line of intelligent remote I/O for Allen-Bradley systems.”
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 process control, wind farms, wastewater treatment plants, nuclear power plants, solar energy, 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.
About OPTO 22
Opto 22 develops and manufactures hardware and software for applications involving industrial automation and control, remote monitoring, and data acquisition. Opto 22 products use standard, commercially available networking and computer technologies, and have an established reputation worldwide for ease-of-use, innovation, quality, and reliability. Opto 22 products are used by automation end-users, OEMs, and information technology and operations personnel.
