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Ethernet Switches Offer Multiple Redundancy Levels Ethernet Direct has released its dual homing technology in its industrial Ethernet switches. Ethernet Direct offers a broad range of industrial managed Ethernet products designed with multi-levels of redundancy to ensure a reliable and secured industrial network. Ethernet Direct offers X-Ring on Industrial managed Ethernet switches. As a network expands by connecting many devices together, Ethernet redundancy becomes more critical to ensure nonstop connection. The X-Ring proprietary protocol incorporates both a coupling ring and dual homing. When there is more than one X-Ring group set up in a network, the dual homing feature can ensure two X-Ring groups with redundant back up when connected to a backbone switch and can be enabled in the switches to allow for standby links to the upper level switch. Dual homing provides an advanced redundancy network solution by connecting switches running in different redundant protocols such as the I...