Belden, a world leader in signal transmission productions, is uniquely able to provide an unparalleled set of solutions for Industrial Ethernet networks, including most associated networking protocols.

Belden’s Industrial Ethernet products ensure the highest level of quality, consistency and performance possible in the industrial environment. These active device and media solutions are also designed for complete interoperability with multiple industry standards to afford our customers complete autonomy.

Uncompromising Media

Belden offers one of the most comprehensive line ups of high quality, high reliability optical fiber and copper cabling solutions in the marketplace today. Designed for maximum uptime in industrial manufacturing and process industries, these products include

Fiber Optic Cables

• TrayOptic® Heavy-duty Indoor/Outdoor laser-optimized optical fiber cables – suitable for use in both risers and trays and available in 2- to 72-fiber constructions
• FiberExpress® 2- or 6-fiber cables in tight-buffered 62.5 µm (FX300) and 50 µm (FX600) multimode constructions suitable for use in plenums. Or, single-mode constructions featuring either 2- or 6-fiber constructions.

Fiber Optic Connectivity

• FiberExpress Duplex patch cords are offered in single-mode and 62.5 µm (FX300) and 50 µm (FX600) multimode versions, suitable for use in riser applications. These patch cords are to be used in conjunction with ST-ST, SC-SC, LC-LC and LC-ST connectors.
• FiberExpress rack-mount and wall-mount patch panels
• FiberExpress single-mode and multimode Universal optical adapter strips
• FiberExpress Optimax® -- and the industry’s most innovative and reliable field-installable optical fiber connector

Copper Cable

To ensure optimum industrial plant performance, the Belden DataTuff® line of copper cables provides the reliability you are looking for, the reliability you need. And our product range is outstanding, including:

• DataTuff Category 5e and Enhanced Category 5e twisted pair cables (unshielded and shielded with heavy-duty oil- and UV-resistant jackets).
• DataTuff Category 6 twisted pair cables (unshielded with heavy-duty oil- and UV-resistant jackets.
• Upjacketed and armored cables for the more extreme environments.

Most DataTuff cables also feature Belden’s patented Bonded-Pair technology, an unshielded twisted pair construction that affixes the conductor insulation of the unshielded twisted cable pairs along their longitudinal axes to ensure that no performance-robbing gaps develop between the conductor pairs. Since no gaps can occur, and the conductor-to-conductor spacing, or centricity, is always uniform, resulting in consistently reliable electrical performance – even after the cable has been subjected to the bending, pulling and twisting that is inherent in the installation process and the stresses of the plant floor. Belden calls this unique performance capability Installable Performance®.

Installed and manipulated nonbonded-pairs (top) have a tendency to gap, varying the centricity of the two conductors. Bonded-Pairs (bottom) do not gap so the physical integrity of the pair is maintained.

Copper Connectivity

• DataTuff IP67 and IP20 RJ45 Cordsets
• DataTuff IP67 Modular jacks (RJ45 – UTP or FTP)
• DataTuff Plug kits (IP67/RJ45 – UTP or FTP)
• DataTuff Surface Mount Boxes (IP67 with stainless steel covers)
• DataTuff Stainless Steel Faceplates (IP67)

For more detailed information on all of these Belden Industrial Ethernet Cable/Connectivity products, click here.

Ethernet Connectivity
Representing 25-years of engineering excellence, this line includes the following Lumberg Automation products:

• Decentralized I/O modules
  
• Decentralized I/O distribution systems
• Overmolded cordsets
• Ethernet switches
• Fieldbus I/O Devices
    –  e2c 67: a centralized, IP67 rated distribution system
    –  e2c 20: an IP20 rated system for switch cabinets

For more information on the Lumberg Automation product line, click here.

Unparalleled Active Devices
The Hirschmann brand represents the broadest selection of Industrial Ethernet solutions for process and discrete applications, as well as infrastructure systems such as transportation, traffic control and energy generation. The Hirschmann line of industrial networking devices manages virtually every communication connection requirement among the various layers of the network: information, control and device. And the line includes products that support both copper and optical fiber media, with data speeds as high as 10 Gigabits per second.

These active devices will also ensure hassle-free and secure data communication under the toughest conditions. Key active components include Fieldbus communication hardware and the following Industrial Ethernet products:

• Backbone switches
• Managed rack-mount switches
• Managed DIN rack-mount switches
• Unmanaged DIN rail-mount switches
• Hard-mount/IP67 switches
• Layer 3/Routing/Firewall switches
• Wireless solutions
• Office/Enterprise switches
• Network management software

For more information on the Hirschmann line, click here.