Application Scenarios
Picture a large petrochemical complex operating an Emerson DeltaV DCS across multiple process buildings, where controllers, operator workstations, and engineering stations are scattered hundreds of meters apart. Plant IT mandates gigabit inter-switch links so that the control network can absorb alarm traffic, historian writes, and OPC data flows without saturating the legacy 100 Mbps segments. The facilities team installs a pair of Emerson VE6022P1 switches as the redundant gigabit core inside the main rack room, populates their 12 SFP slots with multimode and single-mode fiber transceivers sized per building, and then daisy-chains downstream 10/100 switches toward each controller cabinet. Because the VE6022P1 arrives from Emerson pre-flashed and pre-configured to the DeltaV-supported Cisco software version, the network commissioning effort collapses into mounting, cabling, and plugging — no CLI programming, no Cisco IOS license research, and no risk of a misconfigured switch silently degrading the DeltaV ACN. That combination of *gigabit backbone speed* and *factory-validated configuration* is exactly the pain point the VE6022P1 was engineered to solve: getting a deterministic, Emerson-supported DCS network without turning plant control engineers into Cisco network administrators.
The same logic applies to power stations, LNG terminals, and pharmaceutical plants still running the DeltaV classic network architecture — wherever a managed gigabit core with Emerson-validated firmware is required, the Emerson VE6022P1 remains the reference backbone switch.
Parameter
| Main Parameters | Value / Description |
|---|---|
| Product Model | VE6022P1 (North American power cord; VE6022P2/P3/P4 for UK/EU/AU cords) |
| Manufacturer | Emerson Process Management — DeltaV Distributed Control System |
| Product Category | Industrial Managed Gigabit Ethernet Switch (Layer 3, stackable, 1RU rack-mount) |
| Underlying Hardware Platform | Cisco Catalyst 3750G-12S-S (Cisco IOS IP Base feature set) |
| Port Configuration | 12 × hot-swappable SFP slots (Gigabit Ethernet) — accepts any mix of Emerson-qualified transceivers |
| Switching Capacity | 32 Gbps non-blocking, forwarding performance 17.8 Mpps |
| Stacking | Cisco StackWise — 32 Gbps stack interconnect, up to 9 switches per stack |
| MAC Address Table / Jumbo Frames | 12K entries; jumbo frames supported |
| Routing / Redundancy | RIP-1/RIP-2, HSRP, static IP routing, RIPng; STP/RSTP/MSTP, LACP 802.3ad, UDLD |
| Power Input | 100–240 VAC autoranging, 0.6–1.2 A, 50/60 Hz; internal power supply; RPS 2300/675 connector (+12 V @ 13 A) |
| Power Consumption | 120 W max, 409 BTU/hr heat dissipation |
| Operating Environment | 0 °C to +45 °C, 10–85 % RH non-condensing, up to 3,049 m altitude |
| Dimensions (H × W × D) | 44.5 × 445 × 326 mm (1.73 × 17.5 × 12.8 in.) |
| Net Weight | 4.6 kg (10 lb) |
| Mounting | 19-inch rack-mountable (1RU), rack-mount kit included |
| Management | SNMP v1/v2c/v3, RMON 1–9, Telnet, SSH, CLI, Kerberos, RADIUS, TACACS+ |
| MTBF | 215,000 hours |
| Compliant Standards | IEEE 802.3/802.3u/802.3z/802.3ab/802.3ae/802.1D/802.1Q/802.1p/802.1w/802.1s/802.1x/802.3x/802.3ad; CE, FCC Class A, UL 60950, EN 60950, CSA 22.2 No. 60950 |
