Systems and methods for communications devices having multiple interfaces

According to various embodiments, a communication switch may create and/or manage a variety of configurable network relationships between intelligent electronic devices (lEDs) connected via disparate network interfaces using a variety of communication protocols. Accordingly, a communication switch may provide media translation between various types of physical network ports and communication protocol conversion between various communication protocols. For example, a communication switch may be used to create a networked group of lEDs in which some lEDs are connected via Ethernet ports and other lEDs are connected via D-subminiature ports and/or optical ports. The communication switch may create and/or manage network relationships such as publisher/subscriber, master/slave, multidrop configurations, star configurations, and/or other complex network relationships between two or more lEDs or groups of lEDs.