Manufacturing Plant Network

Challenge

A multi-plant manufacturer's production floors ran on unmanaged switching in DIN-rail cabinets, with OT traffic, CCTV and office IT sharing unsegmented segments.

Fiber runs between halls and to remote yard equipment exceeded what office-grade media converters could reliably cover, and there was no central view of any of it.

Solution

Deployed IS1024GS-8F-4TF hardened DIN-rail switches on the production floors with managed per-port and PoE control, segmenting OT, CCTV and IT traffic.

Built the inter-hall fiber backbone on SF412A-LC-10KM single-mode optics, with HDAC-QSFP28-100G-3M harnesses inside cabinets.

Extended coverage to yards and outbuildings with W768OAP outdoor Wi-Fi 7 APs, all brought under Apollo cloud management for a single OT/IT view.

Results

• Production floors moved from unmanaged to managed, segmented switching with per-port visibility.
• Inter-hall backbone standardized on qualified 10 km optics, retiring the media-converter sprawl.
• Plant network now auditable from one management plane across wired, fiber and outdoor wireless.