The manufacturer I work for is on a path of connecting its production equipment/industrial controls to the network to start collecting data. Today, we have a VLAN dedicated to industrial controls and a variety of different PLCs and automation devices plug into it. Some of these devices plus right into our Cisco 3850 IDF and others are connected through Allen Bradley lightly managed switches that then hit the 3850. Many of these devices are older and can be sensitive to excess network broadcast traffic which can cause delays in the transmission, response or in some cases crash the equipment.
I am looking for ways to try to further shield these devices from the general network chatter. Would Storm Control be a viable option with a level of 1% of traffic? I would like to be able to add additional vLans to further segment the network/broadcast domain but our manufacturing equipment can get moved around the production floor to different lines so there isn’t an easy way to create more networks without the burden of needing to change IPs on the control equipment as it shifts lines.
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