The Cisco IE3500 Rugged Series switches deliver high bandwidth, higher power and feature rich switching performance in a rugged and modular form factor. The Cisco IE3500 Rugged Series are designed with features that enable the industrial network infrastructure to seamlessly accommodate machine vision use cases, AI-driven analysis, virtualization, large scale networks, robust security, and edge-to-cloud connectivity.

Robust industrial design

• Built for harsh environments and temperature ranges (-40°C to +75°C or –40°F to 167°F)
• Fanless, convection-cooled with no moving parts for extended durability
• Hardened for industrial shock and vibration, surge, and electrical noise immunity
• Complies with multi-industry specifications for automation, ITS, and substation environments
• Improves uptime, performance, and safety of industrial systems and equipment
• Covers a wide range of Power over Ethernet (PoE) application requirements
• Alarm I/O for monitoring and signaling to external equipment

Network security and Observability

• Secure Boot: The IE3500 features Secure Boot designed to ensure that only trusted and authenticated software is executed during the boot process, with its hardware-anchored root of trust in Cisco Trust Anchor Module.
• Cyber visibility: With Cisco Cyber Vision included^*, the IE3500 identifies connected assets, their profiles, vulnerabilities, and communication patterns to assess your OT security posture and help drive cybersecurity best practices.
• Secure remote access: With Cyber Vision’s Secure Equipment Access included^*, the IE3500 enables zero-trust remote access to connected assets to help you control risks from remote users.
• Segmentation: Cisco TrustSec technology enables policy-based segmentation that helps reduce attack surfaces and contains threats by automatically adapting access based on user and device identity.
• Network Assurance: IE3500 can host ThousandEyes Enterprise Agent¹ that gains visibility into owned and third-party network to avoid network outages.