ALLEN-BRADLEY 1756-OF8

Rockwell Automation is extending the existing Stratix® portfolio of 

industrial network infrastructure products to include a switch with an all Gigabit (GE) platform. The Allen-Bradley® Stratix 5400 industrial managed switch supports layer 2 switching and layer 3 routing with GE Power over Ethernet (PoE) and additional GE fiber ports, which enhance scalability for use in various applications. 

This addition to the portfolio exhibits increased versatility with the 

ability to support multiple network configurations. When used as a 

layer 2 switch, the Stratix 5400 is an ideal solution for heavy industry 

applications where dual ring architectures are required or where high 

performance end devices, such as video or telephony, are needed. 

When acting as a Layer 3 switch, routing is enabled between segmented networks for better performance and protection from unwanted network traffic. Segmenting the network helps to ease network changes, to simplify network security management by building domains of trust and to increase efficiency.

By choosing a switch co-developed by Rockwell Automation and Cisco, your Operations Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) professionals leverage tools and technology that is familiar to them. By helping to provide optimized integration, you can experience easier commissioning and faster diagnostics retrieval.

• Supports layer 2 access switching and layer 3 routing for use in 

multiple layers of the architecture

• Integrated Device Level Ring (DLR) with three-ring support helps 

increase network design flexibility for more complex machines

• All Gigabit (GE) Platform for high performance network support

• Default configurations for industrial applications providing 

easy setup and optimized performance

• Support for dual GE switch ring configurations for high performance network resiliency

• Integrated Network Address Translation (NAT) provides 1:1 IP address mapping helping to reduce commissioning time