New EtherCAT Ethernet technology addresses industrial networking needs, including latency, synchronisation, and reliability.

Now having pushed past its half-century anniversary, the seemingly countless forms of Ethernet, from SPE to PoE, have become an integral part of communications systems across every technological field ...

EtherNet/IP (a standard from ODVA, formerly known as the Open DeviceNet Vendors Association) is the protocol for PCA’s reclaimer, but gear from Fulghum and others uses Ethernet TCP/IP (for ...

ODVA announced that The EtherNet/IP Specification has been enhanced to enable EtherNet/IP networks to support the Ethernet-APL physical layer for process automation. Licensed Vendors for the ...

In my first blog in this series on purpose built switches, I detailed the robust hardware design of our Industrial Ethernet switches that enables them to withstand harsh environments. In this blog, I ...

Ethernet is ubiquitous—it is the core technology that defines the Internet and serves to connect the world in ways that people could not imagine even one generation ago. HPC clusters are working on ...

“Not being overcomplicated is Modbus TCP/IP’s biggest draw, not only for PLCs, but especially for PC-based applications,” said Jason Haldeman, senior product specialist for I/O and networking at ...

Ethernet is a layer 2 data link protocol that is widely used with the TCP/IP protocol, which resides at layers 3 and 4. To understand network communications, it is essential to learn about the ...

The communications technology of the public Internet, local area networks (LANs) and most wide area networks (WANs). The Internet Protocol (IP) is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, and the terms "IP ...

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is a standard protocol on the internet that ensures the reliable transmission of data between devices on a network. It defines how to establish and maintain a ...