Today's incumbent service providers are seeking to accommodate increasing demands for bandwidth, security and service level management resulting from the proliferation of LAN-based applications.
Terms can sometimes play tricks on the mind. Take EtherNet/IP, for example. Many people will read “IP” as internet protocol and think that EtherNet/IP refers to plain old, standard industrial Ethernet ...
Ethernet’s bandwidth and its ability to carry many different protocols provide a huge array of options for users. Being able to connect devices that use fieldbus technologies such as Modbus, DeviceNet ...