Product profile
SwitchBlox Rugged
SwitchBlox Rugged is BotBlox rugged five-port 10/100 Mbps Ethernet switch for drones, robots and embedded systems. Its compact board is built for harsh env...
Facts
- Company
- BotBlox
- Product type
- rugged_network_switch
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- compact rugged Ethernet switch
- Website
- https://botblox.io/products/rugged-ethernet-switch
About SwitchBlox Rugged
SwitchBlox Rugged provides five 10/100-megabit Ethernet ports on a 44.5-millimetre-square board. It accepts five to 60 volts, consumes approximately 0.6 watts at idle and uses automotive-rated switching hardware and military-grade passive components for operation from −50°C to 110°C.
Two boards can be stacked into an unmanaged ten-port switch, while connection to BotBlox’s Rugged SOM adds Layer 2 management, Layer 3 routing, VLANs, traffic prioritisation, VPN and firewall functions. The board has undergone vibration, electromagnetic and radiation testing and is intended for drones, robots and compact embedded systems where conventional industrial switches are too large.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Network switch
Core: Rugged Ethernet
Function: Link devices
Audience: Robot OEMs
Specifications
- dimensions
- 44.5 mm x 44.5 mm x 11.17 mm
- input_voltage
- 5 V to 60 V; tolerant to 65 V
- network_speed
- 10/100M Ethernet
- operating_temperature
- -50 C to +110 C
- ports
- 5 ports; 10 ports when two boards are stacked
- price
- $219.00 USD
- product_status
- Active, with 5-year minimum lifetime
- storage_temperature
- -55 C to +125 C
Operations
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- BotBlox reports radiation testing for rugged Ethernet switch modules — 2025-03-01
- BotBlox details pressure-tolerant subsea Ethernet infrastructure — 2025-02-08
- BotBlox releases BloxOs for Rugged SOM and SwitchBlox Rugged — 2024-12-13
- Vision iO validates SPEBlox-Long in ReadyCAM communications — 2023-08-23