Appendix F: Capabilities Of Connected Automationdirect Devices; Network Topology - AutomationDirect StrideLinx SE-SL30011 User Manual

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Appendix F: Capabilities of Connected AutomationDirect Devices

Network Topology

To facilitate description of the capabilities of various AutomationDirect product lines when
connected to a StrideLinx VPN router, the overall topology of a network connecting plant
devices to the StrideLinx Cloud can be divided into three zones, as illustrated in the two
figures later in this appendix.
The zones are defined as follows.
• Zone 1 is outside the company network, and includes the StrideLinx Cloud and secure
connections to it from various devices.
• Zone 2 is the company network, which exists behind a corporate firewall. This zone may
include various computer systems, but is isolated from the plant/controls network by the
internal firewall of the VPN router.
• Zone 3 comprises the devices connected to the VPN router, and thus potentially capable
of secure remote connection.
NOTE: Zone 2 does not participate at all in StrideLinx communications when a 4G cellular connection is used on the
VPN router, since the 4G connection does not traverse the company network.
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