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Welcome to Industrial Ethernet
Industrial Ethernet for efficient solutions in automation
With Industrial Ethernet, a powerful area and cell network is available
for industrial applications, in line with standards IEEE 802.3 (ETHERNET)
and 802.11 (wirelesss LAN). Today, with a share of over 80%, it
is now the network No. 1 worldwide within the LAN environment. Powerful
and efficient communication networks with a wide range can be installed
via Industrial Ethernet.
Base technology for worldwide networking.
A multitude of Intranet, Extranet and Internet features - already
available in today´s office environment - can also be used in production
and process automation.
Ethernet technology - successful for many years in connection with
switching, full duplex and autosensing - allows users to adjust
the required performance within the network to their exact requirements.
They can also choose the data rate as required since the system-wide
compatibility allows a step-by-step introduction of the new technology.
Ethernet has some important properties giving the following advantages:
- Fast start-up by most simple wiring methods
- High availability since existing installations can be expanded
without any problems
- Practically unlimited communication performance since scalable
performance through switching technology and high data rates
are available if required
- Networking of the most varied fields of application such as
offices and production facilities
- Company-wide communication through the coupling facility via
WAN (Wide Area Network) as well as via ISDN or Internet
- No investment risk thanks to the continued and compatible
further development
- Reserving of data at industrial wireless LAN (IWLAN).
Designed for Industry
SIMATIC NET places all its chips on this proven technology. Far
more than 500,000 connections have been supplied by Siemens worldwide
to harsh and EMC-relevant areas of the industry .
For industrial environments, SIMATIC NET offers essential supplements
to Ethernet technology:
- Network components for the use in harsh industrial environments
- Fast wiring at the site thanks to FastConnect wiring system
using RJ45 technology
- Failsafe networks through fast redundancy features
- Continuous monitoring of network components by simple but
effective alarm concept
- Future-oriented network components with the new Industrial
Ethernet switch family SCALANCE X e.g. Gigabit.
All products of the new generation have available the basic feature
set "Designed for Industry".
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