Siemens 6GK5324-4QG10-1AR2 SCALANCE XR324-4M PoE DC24V Front-Port Managed Switch

The Siemens 6GK5324-4QG10-1AR2 SCALANCE XR324-4M PoE is a managed Layer 2 Industrial Ethernet switch for 19-inch rack mounting, with 16 electrical 10/100/1000 Mbit/s RJ45 ports (8 of them PoE-capable) plus four slots for 2-port media modules, all accessed from the front. It runs from a 24 V DC supply and supports MRP/HRP ring redundancy with a redundancy manager, meeting PROFINET conformity class B.

Technical Specifications

Certifications & Standards

• CE
• UKCA
• KC
• RCM
• ATEX
• UKEX
• IECEx
• ULhazloc
• CCC-Ex
• FM

Selection Notes

Front-facing ports suit cabinets that are only accessible from one side; a rear-port sibling routes the same 16 electrical + media-module ports to the back for cabinets wired from behind, and AC-supplied siblings exist for cabinets without a 24 V DC bus. All variants in this design share the eight PoE-capable ports and four modular media slots, so pick this one by mounting orientation and available power, not feature set.

Applications

Machine or process-cell aggregation switch feeding PoE-powered cameras or WLAN access points alongside conventional Gigabit Ethernet devices, with modular slots to add fiber uplinks as the plant's backbone grows.