Belden Launches Expanded Industrial Edge Solution
St. Louis, Missouri – June 15, 2022 – Belden, a leading global supplier of specialty networking solutions, will launch the new Belden HorizonTM industrial edge solution in July. The powerful new platform meets the fast-growing need for a simpler, seamless, secure, reliable way to connect operational systems at the edge while maintaining security and communication with the cloud. The Belden Horizon console features the same Secure Remote Access (SRA) and Persistent Data Network (PDN) customers enjoyed with ProSoft Connect® but adds potential for other functions, such as edge orchestration, data monitoring, and anomaly detection using short interval data.
The Belden Horizon console
incorporates software as a service (SaaS) technology that, at its launch next
month, will enable operations personnel to manage industrial edge devices more
efficiently with “edge orchestration” capabilities. Edge orchestration allows
users to deploy and manage edge applications across one device or many devices
at the same time locally or remotely.
“When people thought of
Belden in the past, they thought of switches and cable, but we’ve moved beyond
that,” said Jeremy Friedmar, senior product manager, Edge solutions at Belden.
“Customers get full-fledged IT/OT solutions from Belden, solutions that will
continue to expand into new applications as we learn more and advance the
technology. We are excited to provide this additional enabling technology as
part of our broader Edge initiative to get operations people the tools they
need where they need them. Belden Horizon and edge hardware products like our forthcoming
Hirschmann OpEdge-8D are ruggedized, industrial-grade equipment that can
withstand harsh operational environments, making them better than the available
IT solutions.”
When Belden Horizon launches,
current ProSoft Connect customers will continue to receive seamless,
best-in-class SRA and PDN on the new Belden Horizon platform with Belden’s
superior security features; in addition, they can better onboard and manage
edge devices and applications with edge orchestration. They can also look
forward to the forthcoming data monitoring solutions, which will allow many
data insights to be applied at the edge, before the data is even sent to the
cloud, saving valuable processing time.
Belden Horizon also features Virtual
Lockout-Tagout (vLOTO™) security. This unique innovation adds value to
applications on the Belden Horizon console because vLOTO requires users to
obtain permission prior to making a secure connection to a network.
“Our secure remote access
(SRA) with vLOTO is the best in the business,” said Keith Blodorn, Business
Director at ProSoft Technology, a Belden brand. “It works at the edge to allow
direct access tunnels to secure networks of remote equipment at the operational
level, minimizing machine and process downtime and reducing support costs. It
simultaneously ensures seamless visibility for the organization’s IT people and
higher-level management on the overall network, efficiently meeting both OT and
IT needs.”
Belden’s industrial internet
of things (IIoT) automation hardware portfolio, which includes products like
the Hirschmann OpEdge-8D and the ProSoft ICX35 industrial cellular gateway, has
Belden-inherent capabilities like networking, routing, and basic stateful firewall.
"The
trend in industrial markets towards digitization is real. Organizations have
realized the business value of the insights that they can glean from their
operational data and are eager to implement solutions enabling its collection,
visualization, and analysis," Friedmar said. “Belden’s Edge solutions provide
the critical infrastructure for the efficient integration of local operational
data into a variety of applications that will produce insights that ultimately
improve efficiency, maximize uptime, and enable continuous process
improvement.”
About
Belden
Belden Inc. delivers a comprehensive product portfolio designed to meet the mission-critical network infrastructure needs of industrial and enterprise markets. With innovative solutions targeted at reliable and secure transmission of rapidly growing amounts of data, audio and video needed for today's applications, Belden is at the center of the global transformation to a connected world. Founded in 1902, the company is headquartered in St. Louis and has manufacturing capabilities in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. For more information, visit us at www.belden.com; follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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