Example of an Industrial Ring Network Switch

X-Ring is supplied on the Case Communications range of Industrial Ethernet switches and provides an improvement over Spanning Tree and Rapid Spanning Tree. It provides a very rapid auto recovery if the network suffers a corrupt or broken link and prevent network loops. Forget the old star layout—where every cable runs back to a central switch. Here, each switch sits between two neighbors, forming a continuous ring. If. This document provides basic background information regarding adding ring redundancy in your wired Ethernet networks. [pdf]