Belden RED25 Fast Ethernet redundancy switches

Belden has released the RED25 family of entry-level, Fast Ethernet redundancy switches designed for industrial automation applications in need of cost-effective and high-end redundant network solutions.

RED25’s focus on redundancy makes these switches suitable for the automotive, manufacturing and machine building industries. These industries tend to have automation systems that are part of the network infrastructure. When a system failure occurs, it happens most often within the network and causes service interruptions. RED25’s redundancy technology can reduce the effects of these failures, minimising the risk of outages while maximising productivity, ensuring consistent communication and keeping plants operating.

In addition to supporting various redundancy technologies, the RED25 switches have comprehensive built-in security features to provide reliable protection against network attacks or operating errors. They are also customisable based on specific port needs or environmental factors, such as temperature range.

RED25 provides maximum productivity and network uptime, thanks to interruption-free data communications based on parallel redundancy protocol (PRP) and high availability seamless redundancy (HSR). Other redundancy technologies, like rapid spanning tree protocol (RSTP), device level ring (DLR) and media redundancy protocol (MRP), allow the switches to connect to existing networks. The switches have also been designed to handle high ambient temperatures and meet precise time synchronisation requirements.

The RED25 switch is offered in two, four-port versions: four fast Ethernet (FE) TX ports, or two FE TX ports, plus two FE small form-factor pluggable (SFP) ports.