Routing for Industrial Applications
As well as being a state of the art layer2 switch Redfox also doubles up to provide router functionality. Routing is becoming an essential function for infrastructure and factory automation networks. These networks are becoming more complicated with the boundary between LAN and WAN becoming less clear making security and network segmentation critical.
Providing static routing and firewall functions the Redfox can become the boundary between different networks providing simple segregation to ensure dataflow is controlled between networks and accidental as well as deliberate data incursions are prevented.
The Redfox is an ideal solution to isolate the corporate IT environment from an industrial automation network where there are sharply differing requirements. Not only can the Redfox form part of an FRNT redundant ring in the automation network it can also act as firewall to the corporate network. If, as is often the case the corporate network is connected to the Internet then the ability of RedFox to act as a VPN end point allows engineers the ability to remotely and securely access the automation network from anywhere in the world.
Redfox also supports Network Address Translation (NAT) and port forwarding, so could also be used as the boundary between public IP addresses on the Internet and hidden private IP addresses in a local secure network.
