Cisco IE-2000U-4S-G Industrial Switch

Product overview

The Cisco Industrial Ethernet (IE) 2000U Switches are compact switches for the harsh, rugged environments often found in the energy and utility industries. IE 2000U switches support the communications needs of the utility- and customer-owned energy-delivery infrastructure across distributed generation, transmission, and distribution sectors. This infrastructure includes substation applications supporting electrical transmission and distribution, renewable generation, oil and gas, water, distributed generation, cogeneration, and trackside operations.

Product details

Cisco IE 2000U Series Switches are designed for DIN rail mounting, low port counts, and small sizes. They offer:

●      Four, eight, or 16 Fast Ethernet ports (either SFP (Small Form-Factor Pluggable) or 100BaseT RJ45 downlinks depending on the model); fixed configurations with a compact form factor

●      Two Gigabit Ethernet uplink ports (SFP, RJ45 or combo) and up to 2 additional FE uplinks depending on model

●      IEC-62439-3: Parallel Redundancy Protocol support on 8 and 16 port models

●      Dual-input DC power supply, alarm relays, DIN rail mount

●      Swappable SD flash card required and included

●      Mini-USB and traditional serial console connector

●      Substation environmental compliance and certifications: IEC-61850-3 and IEEE 1613

●      Conformal coating available on specific models

Primary IE 2000U features and benefits

●      Rugged industrial design and substation compliance: IEC-61850-3 and IEEE 1613 for utility substation environments

●      Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities to support mission-critical substation applications such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and IEC 61850 Generic Object Oriented Substation Events (GOOSE) messaging

●      Tools for easy deployment, management, and replacement

●      Extensive instrumentation and remote diagnostic capabilities

●      Comprehensive network security features based on open standards, such as 802.1x, Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Inspection, and Port Security

The IE 2000U is designed for network security, high availability, ease of use, and durability. Table 1 lists the business benefits of the IE 2000U.

Table 1.        IE 2000U Primary Business Benefits

Software optimized for energy applications

The IE 2000U software is optimized for energy applications and builds on the strength of Cisco IOS Software, which powers mission-critical networks across the world. Numerous new features make the IE 2000U the optimal Ethernet switch for energy network operators. For example, Cisco SmartPort templates can enable simple configuration for utility environments. Features such as Generic Online Diagnostics (GOLD) publish an event when critical failures are detected, and this can be retrieved from the switch. Also, OnBoard Failure Logging (OBFL) collects and logs information from critical sensors in the switch, monitoring voltage, temperature, and other information.

In addition, many default behaviors of the IE 2000U are different from those of traditional Ethernet switches, making the IE 2000U easier to configure, manage, secure, and troubleshoot.

High availability and redundancy

High availability is a vital requirement for networks that transport mission-critical data. The IE 2000U supports dual connections for power supplies, SFP modules, and the connected grid swap drive, which increases network uptime and reduces redeployment time in the field. In addition, external alarm inputs/outputs allow network operators to monitor changes in the switch's environmental conditions before a failure occurs.

To further increase high availability on a network-wide level, the IE 2000U offers PRP, REP and FlexLink for fast reconvergence, link-state tracking, IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), and per-VLAN Rapid Spanning Tree Plus (PVRST+). These capabilities help to create redundant, failsafe topologies. Strong, built-in security helps prevent the device and the network from succumbing to malicious attacks, thereby enhancing network uptime.

Security

The wide range of security features on the IE 2000U protects mission-critical traffic, prevents unauthorized access, and maintains uninterrupted operation. The IE 2000U protects operational and nonoperational data by focusing on securing connectivity, defending against network threats, and providing trust and identity features.

Protecting a network begins with securing connectivity. For example, ACLs can be used to restrict access to sensitive portions of the network. To defend against network threats such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) spoofing, DHCP snooping can be used to allow only DHCP requests (but not responses) from untrusted user-facing ports. Workforce management is a critical use case, where trust and identity features such as IEEE 802.1x can be used to facilitate strong security policies, yet provide maximum mobility to a remote workforce.

Table 2 lists these and other primary features of the security solution.

Table 2.        Primary features for each area of comprehensive security solution

Switch management options

The IE 2000U offers an easy-to-use GUI for configuration through the Cisco Configuration Professional tool, as well as a superior Command-Line Interface (CLI) for detailed configuration. In addition, the switches support Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for network-wide management. Network operators can integrate the IE 2000U transparently into their network operations centers and promote improved flow-through provisioning.

Network operators can also manage the IE 2000U using SNMP Versions 2 and 3. A comprehensive set of MIBs is provided for network operators to collect traffic information from the IE 2000U.

Switch performance and scalability

●      Maximum Forwarding Bandwidth – 3.8Gbps

●      Maximum Switching Bandwidth – 7.6Gbps

●      Maximum Forwarding rate: 5.66Mpps with 64-byte packets (Line-rate at all packet sizes)

●      Egress buffer: 2 MB

●      Unicast MAC addresses: 8000

●      Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) multicast groups: 1000

●      Maximum virtual LANs (VLANs): 1005

●      IPv4 MAC security Access Control Entries (ACE): 375 (default ternary content-addressable memory [TCAM] template)

●      Switching Database Manager (SDM) templates for Layer 2 and Layer 3 deployments: optimizes memory allocation to the desired features based on deployment-specific requirements

Switch configurations

Figure 1 displays switch models, and Table 3 provides Cisco IE 2000U Series Switch configuration information.

Switch Models

Table 3.        Cisco IE 2000U series configurations

Table 4.        Power supplies

Table 5.        IE 2000U Software and Accessories part numbers

Product specifications

Table 6 lists product specifications.

Table 6.        Specifications

Table 7 lists the primary features in the LAN Base Cisco IOS Software image.

Table 7.        Primary Features for LAN Base and IP Services Cisco IOS Software Image

Management and standards

Table 8 provides management and standards support information for the IE 2000U.

Table 8.        Management and standards

SFPs for Cisco IE 2000U switches

Table 9 provides SFP support information.

Table 9.        SFP support

Note:      For DOM support and for first software release supporting SFP, refer to https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps5455/products_device_support_tables_list.html

Safety and compliance

Table 10 gives safety and compliance information for the IE 2000U.

Table 10.     Safety and compliance specifications

IE2000U 6 ports

IE2000U 10 ports

IE2000U 20 ports

For more information

●      Cisco Industrial Ethernet 2000U (IE 2000U) Series Switches: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps13222/index.html.