
Ethernet switch with PoE functionality
Spectra is launching the IGS-624HPT industrial Ethernet switch, which offers a total of six Gigabit Ethernet ports, four of which support Po-E+ and two of which are designed as SFP ports.
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Spectra is launching the IGS-624HPT industrial Ethernet switch, which offers a total of six Gigabit Ethernet ports, four of which support Po-E+ and two of which are designed as SFP ports.
Two years after its launch in November 2018, the OPC Foundation's Field Level Communications Initiative has completed the initial release candidate for the 'Controller to Controller' use case. What is behind this release and what are the next steps?
Belden has now reached an agreement with OTN Systems to acquire the company. Belden is paying USD 71 million for the company and the transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of the year.

With the E-CO switches, Lütze presents a plug-and-play family of industrial-grade Fast and Gigabit Ethernet switches.
Precise time synchronization is essential for TSN networks and is achieved using 802.1AS. What are the basic mechanisms and what are the implementation options?
Single Pair Ethernet is intended to close one of the last major gaps in a TCP/IP-oriented network world - the gap between classic IT and sensor technology. At the moment, there are still a few hypotheses in the air that are causing confusion.
Hilscher is expanding its PC card technology to include a remote network interface with M12 connection technology called AIFX-RE\M12.

As part of our printed December issue, we would like to share with you the latest supplement from Bihl+Wiedemann. Here you can find the Master News as an e-paper.
"Three questions for..." - in December
Time Sensitive Networking - TSN for short - is in the process of establishing itself as a real-time Ethernet standard. What is the state of play in the industry? As part of the "3 questions for ..." series, we asked experts from companies about this.
The process industries are confronted with very specific situations, so Ethernet is only gradually becoming the basic technology for a digital future here too. Ethernet-APL is one approach to this.