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To overcome serial communication challenges, Moxa’s serial connectivity solutions enable your serial device connectivity effortlessly. Their serial connectivity product portfolio includes multiport serial boards, USB-to-serial converters, serial device servers, and serial-to-Ethernet protocol gateways that fulfil your different demands in connecting your serial devices into modern systems.

To keep up with changing connectivity requirements while saving you time and effort, the EDS-2000 Series unmanaged switches install-and-forget durability and extra compact size design continually meet your demands for flexibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. That’s why the EDS-2000 Series has already gained widespread positive recognition from industrial automation engineers in the US and Japan since its release in 2020.

Moxa’s rugged palm-sized Arm-based UC-2100 computers are reliable and secure IIoT gateways with Ethernet and ESD-protected serial ports. The mean time between failures (MTBF) is up to 1,600,000 hours and the preinstalled Debian-based Moxa Industrial Linux comes with 10-year lifecycle support. This makes the computers ideal for cost- and space-constrained industrial scenarios.

Moxa's NAT-102 Series Network Address Translation (NAT) devices are designed to simplify the IP configuration of machines in existing network infrastructure and provide basic cybersecurity protection for factory automation environments.

Retrofitting substations with our new MGate 5119 Series IEC 61850 gateways are easy and secure. Our gateways provide DNP3/IEC 101/IEC 104/Modbus-to-IEC 61850 protocol conversions, easy-to-use functions to simplify configuration and troubleshooting, and security-hardened features based on the IEC 62443 and NERC CIP standards, and protocol encryption functions to enhance communication security. With these features, the MGate 5119 Series IEC 61850 gateways are a perfect fit for substation retrofit projects.

ETHERLINE® GUARD is a stationary monitoring device that continuously monitors an Ethernet cable, detects a decline in performance and displays it with an easy-to-understand parameter - the cable status.

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Please be advised that from May 1st ECS will be implementing price increases across our entire range of cables and cable accessories.

ECS are proud to announce we are now an authorised reseller of Allied Telesis industrial and commercial Network and Communication Devices. At ECS, we believe Allied Telesis will complement our ever-growing portfolio of high-quality brands with their dynamic range of high-end "Japanese Engineered" products.

Ruggedised switches are built to provide enduring performance in harsh environments. The Allied Telesis Layer 3 Switch offers high throughput, rich functionality, and advanced security features, IE340 switches deliver the performance and reliability demanded by deployments in the age of the Internet of Things (IoT).