Switches of the SCALANCE X?400 product line

The switches of the SCALANCE X?400 product line allow for the flexible design of electrical or optical Industrial Ethernet networks with high availability. Network topology, type and number of ports can be adapted easily to the structure of the plant.

Product overview

The SCALANCE X?400 switches are ideally suited to configure the system bus and the terminal bus of the SIMATIC PCS 7 process control system in electrical or optical Gigabit ring technology (non-redundant and redundant rings). The switches can be used as redundancy managers in the ring and support the standby redundancy for bus configurations with two redundant rings. They are also perfectly suited to operate as a star hub in the plant bus.

The SCALANCE X?400 product range includes two modular switch types with the following features:

• SCALANCE X408-2
  2 x 2 electrical RJ45 ports 10/100/1000 Mbit/s (1000BaseTX)
  1 x 4 electrical RJ45 ports 10/100 Mbit/s (10/100BaseTX)
  2 Gigabit/Fast Ethernet media module slots
• SCALANCE X414-3E
  1 x 2 electrical RJ45 ports 10/100/1000 Mbit/s (1000BaseTX)
  3 x 4 electrical RJ45 ports 10/100 Mbit/s (10/100BaseTX);
  1 Gigabit Ethernet media module slot
  2 Fast Ethernet media module slots
  1 Extender interface for:
  • Extender with 8 Fast Ethernet twisted-pair ports
  • Extender with 4 media module slots for up to 8 Fast Ethernet fiber optic ports

Both versions permit a maximum communications performance, in particular for very large plants with comprehensive quantity frameworks and expansive communication networks.