GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms is offering a VME Ethernet switch in a 6U form-factor which will support for 12 or 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Capable of Layer-2 switching at wire speed, the RM983RC’s 12 or 24 ports are routed to front panel I/O and can be 10/100/1000BaseT, 1000BaseSX or 1000BaseLX. Mixing and matching of fibre and copper media in groups of four is supported. Scanbe front panel and urethane or acrylic conformal coatings are optional.

The front panel I/O routing of the RM983RC extends the capability of the NETernity 6U VME product family by offering designers a choice of I/O routing; the recently announced NETernity RM982RC features rear I/O.

It comes with the company’s OpenWare Lite Linux-based software.

More information: www.gefanuc.com