Date: 24/09/2009

Power saving green Gigabit Ethernet switches from Advantech

Advantech has introduced the EKI-2725-BE and EKI-2728-BE, a two new energy efficient unmanaged Gigabit Ethernet switches that features an energy efficient design, resulting in 10% to 15% power savings.

The EKI-2725 is a 5-port Ethernet Switch where as the EKI-2728 is a 8-port Ethernet Switch, in addition to Gigabit (1000 Mbps) operation both the switches support 9K Jumbo Frames. This allows large blocks of data to be sent with each transmission, for increased network throughput and reduced CPU utilization of connected devices for emerging multimedia and video applications such as intelligent cameras employing the GigE Vision standard for machine vision.

The EKI-2725 and EKI-2728 switches also features that including RoHS compliance, optimized DC/DC power supply and a power-saving Ethernet switch controller. During operation, power savings is realized on Ethernet ports with no traffic, and ports not in use are powered-down for maximum power savings.


All the Ethernet ports support auto-negotiation for backwards compatibility with 10Mbps and 100Mbps devices and equipment for applications that require mixed speed devices. Also, with auto-MDI/MDI-X, there is no need for cross-over cables for inter-switch connections.

The EKI-2725 and EKI-2728 feature an IP30 protected metal chassis and an operating temperature of -10 to 60° C, equipped with redundant +12 to 48VDC power inputs, 3,000 VDC surge protection on the power line, and 4000V ESD on the Ethernet ports. Their compact size and flexible installation methods (including DIN-rail and panel-mount) allow installation in space-constrained areas.

For more details visit www.advantech.com