The hEX S is a five port Gigabit Ethernet router. Compared to the hEX, the hEX S also features an SFP port and PoE output on the last port.
It is affordable, small and sleek. The device has a USB 2.0, PoE output for Ethernet port #5 and a 1.25Gbit/s SFP cage. The port #5 can power other passive PoE capable devices with the same voltage as applied to the unit.
IPsec hardware encryption (~470 Mbps), and features a microSD slot to use for a file-server, containers, or advanced configuration.
This router also has a MT7621 switch chip, which allows for hardware off-loaded Bridge VLAN Filtering.