St. Louis, Missouri – October 18, 2023 – Belden Inc. (NYSE: BDC), a well-known global supplier of network infrastructure and digitalization solutions, today announced the release of the LEMUR Lite Managed Switch Family and Hirschmann Entry Operating System (HiEOS). LEMUR’s new, budget-friendly managed switches provide advanced features, including advanced security and full Gigabit Ethernet, to support today’s environmental automation areas. Built with the all-new and developed HiEOS software, LEMUR switches have a simple blog interface for easy setup and protection without the need for proprietary data technology (IT) capabilities.

Given the challenges of digital change, increasing security threats, and computing limitations, companies need switches that offer useful features and a secure, sturdy design at an attractive price. With Power Ethernet (PoE) and PoE+ options, which offer up to 180 W of power without separate energy consumption and IP30 protection, LEMUR switches are built in accordance with International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 62443-4-1 safety standards.

LEMUR Lite Managed Switch Family provides powerful benefits such as:

• Easy composition and management without the need for IT intervention through the easy-to-use HiEOS blog interface.
• The budget-friendly design provides exceptional functionality including full Gigabit Ethernet, a high number of ports, and advanced security.
• Useful features, plus reliability by providing “set it and forget it” capabilities for easy protection and full budget ownership.

Running on LEMUR switches, HiEOS offers useful layer 2 managed switching capabilities – such as port monitoring, remote diagnostics, and PoE/PoE+ options. Providing extraordinary capacity, HiEOS provides a rich set of features including:

• Enhanced security — including SSHv2 and various levels of proprietary privileges — provides top reliability.
• Redundancy methods include Ethernet Ring Protection Switching (ERPS)*, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) and customer Redundancy Protocol (MRP) devices.
• The interfaces include a command line interface (CLI), simple Network Management program (SNMP), JavaScript subject log Remote Method Call (JSON-RPC) and a very user friendly Hirschmann blog interface.

“Companies are currently experiencing increasing demand for automation and IT/OT convergence, resulting in an increasing need to capture, transmit and monitor large amounts of data,” said Mariel Oettinger, Product executive at Belden. “LEMUR Lite Managed Switch Family delivers the advanced data agility required in a budget-friendly and space-saving form factor with the easy-to-use HiEOS blog interface. This allows companies to get all the useful switch features they need without paying for things they don’t, while simplifying switch management and saving money over time.”

The LEMUR Lite Managed Switch family ensures durability and reliability for many industrial applications, including manufacturing, engineering, food and beverage, automotive, and user shell loading, and route monitoring systems, railroad stations, and airports.