Belden OT Network Assessment Service

Accelerate industrial reliability, security, and uptime with a purpose‑built assessment for OT networks. Our engagement gives operations, IT/OT, and plant leadership a clear view of the current state of your network—assets, performance, security posture, and wireless coverage—culminating in a prioritized, actionable roadmap that reduces risk and improves resiliency. The assessment looks at the Functionality, Facility, Maintainability, Modernity, and Security of your OT Network. This is an important step in establishing a data pipeline that connects your industrial assets to services like AWS IoT Sitewise and Amazon Sagemaker.

Objectives:

• Establish a trusted baseline of your OT asset inventory, topology, and configurations
• Identify performance bottlenecks, security gaps, and infrastructure health issues
• Validate and optimize industrial wireless (WLAN) design and deployment
• Deliver a clear, phased remediation plan aligned to production realities and safety constraints

Deliverables: Infrastructure Assessment Report (OT‑Focused)

• Executive summary for leadership
• Detailed findings with evidence (screenshots, logs, captures), low/medium/high priority ratings
• Topology diagrams, asset inventory, configuration summaries
• Wireless artifacts: measures real WLAN coverage, used channels, and interference
• Compliance‑aligned observations consistent with OT best practices
• Effort estimates, dependencies, and implementation guidance
• Stakeholder Presentation & Working Session: review of key issues, Q&A, and agreement on next steps and owners

What You Get (Outcomes):

• Fewer unplanned outages and improved process continuity
• Reduced cyber and safety risk through better segmentation and access control
• Right‑sized wireless performance for industrial mobility and IIoT workloads
• A shared, accurate source of truth across Operations, Maintenance, and IT/OT
• A clear modernization path that respects production schedules and constraints

Scope & Approach:

Network Assessment Service

• Kick-off Meeting: Align with stakeholders on goals, scope, and timeline for the assessment
• Network Inventory: Gather data on all network-connected devices, configurations, and topology
• Onsite Assessment: Conduct a hands-on evaluation of network performance, security, and infrastructure health
• Infrastructure Assessment Report Creation: Analyze findings and compile a detailed, actionable report
• Infrastructure Assessment Report Presentation: Review the report with stakeholders, highlighting key issues and recommended next steps

Wireless Network Assessment Service

• Kick-off meeting: Validate the different stakeholders and interview people to gather first contextual information, application understanding and agree on scope
• WLAN simulation: Calculate wireless coverage and antenna position using customer floor plans
• Wireless site survey: Install antennas and measures at customer’s site to confirm design meets requirements
• Wireless post deployment: After installing and configuring all equipment, measures real WLAN coverage, used channels, interference
• Wireless troubleshooting: Check installation and configuration, capture WLAN Data to detect WLAN problems
• Retrofit wireless upgrade: Check actual installation and suggest improvements