Sponsored by: Texas Instruments A variety of protocols have been developed to overcome some of Ethernet's limitations in industrial applications. Ethernet has dominated wired computer-networking ...

A look at the three competing interconnect technologies, each vying to solve the data movement bottleneck created by ...

For the first time, evangelists for six of the leading industrial Ethernet networking protocols sat side by side to present their protocols. Attendees at The Automation Forum asked questions and got ...

The EtherCAT slave to EtherNet/IP master gateway plays the role of a "translator" in this scenario. The Beckhoff PLC acts as ...

Open communication protocolsModbus TCP/IP is an open industrial protocol based on standard Ethernet. Modbus provides connectivity to programmable automation controllers (PACs), PLCs, and legacy ...

With EtherNet/IP a controller can now be linked to both information systems and I/O devices for a flat network architecture. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is to Ethernet as ...

Applications need massive amounts of storage, but servers have limited disk space. Moving storage out of a server and putting it on a network makes expanding storage easy. The ATA-over-Ethernet ...

Microchip’s next generation LAN9645xF and LAN9645xS GbE switches are highly configurable with multiple ports and advanced ...

Pi Network switches to version 20 on testnet as Pi Coin gains 3%. Domain auction are signs of increased adoption and an ...