Articles and background information on the topic
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?
read more...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.
read more...With the E-CO switches, Lütze presents a plug-and-play family of industrial-grade Fast and Gigabit Ethernet switches.
read more...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?
read more...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.
read more...Hilscher is expanding its PC card technology to include a remote network interface with M12 connection technology called AIFX-RE\M12.
read more..."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.
read more...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.
read more...With 10BASE-T1L Single Pair Ethernet, a new Ethernet physical layer was adopted as a standard by the IEEE just over a year ago. This new standard will profoundly change process automation.
read more...Phoenix Contact is expanding the FL Switch 1000 series with fibre optic variants that are housed in a slimline enclosure and, according to the supplier, offer a higher port density and prioritization of data traffic for automation protocols.
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