Description

The VE6022P1​ is an Emerson DeltaV M-series modular industrial Ethernet switch — a 12-slot, Layer 2 Gigabit chassis that lives at the heart of a DeltaV Area Control Network. It is not a fixed-port office switch and it is not a managed Layer 3 box: it is the ACN aggregation point where controllers, operator workstations, engineering stations, application servers and historians meet.The defining detail is the one that catches people out. The VE6022P1​ ships as an empty chassis​ — twelve SFP cages, no ports active, no copper ports on the faceplate. Until you install at least one transceiver, it is electrically a very expensive piece of rack fill. That is not a defect; it is the product’s whole design logic. A process plant rarely needs twelve identical ports, and a fixed copper switch would force either a patchwork of media converters or a long multimode run on a 100 m copper budget. The VE6022P1​ lets one chassis carry the short cabinet jumpers, the plant-floor fiber and the long single-mode links side by side, all inside the Emerson-qualified envelope.

Application Scenarios

A regional refinery expanded its DeltaV control room from a single operator station to a redundant pair, added a historian and an application server, and had to bring three remote I/O cabinets onto the same ACN at distances of 80 m, 1.2 km and 6.4 km. Buying three different switches would have meant three vendor support contracts, three firmware streams and a network the DeltaV diagnostics could not fully see. The VE6022P1​ solved it in one rack unit: VE6025​ Gigabit copper SFPs for the workstation and server legs, VE6023​ multimode for the near cabinet, VE6024​ single-mode for the far one. The port mix was built once, documented once, and the ACN stayed a single Emerson-supported fabric. When a fiber splice degraded six months later, the fault showed up as one link-down event on one cage — not a mystery broadcast storm across the control room.

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