Machine builders are enjoying a new level of machine design flexibility through the use of a single network for their entire machine, including VFD and servo drives for integrated motion control. That ...

Combining flexible PC-based control technology with an Ethernet/IP interface, the CX8095 Embedded PC is a low cost slave controller with integrated connection to high-performance EtherCAT I/O ...

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 ...

The real-time communications capability of industrial Ethernet is a hot topic. It will be a key component of the Industrial Safety Network panel discussion being held on the first day of The ...

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 ...

GL Communications Inc. announces its TCP and IP Analytics™, a new network traffic analysis solution designed to simplify IP network troubleshooting, TCP performance monitoring and root-cause ...

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 Edge” refers to any source of data that ultimately ends up in a data center or cloud processing paradigm. Examples are cameras and sensors, mobile devices, many types of vehicles, routers and ...

(Internet Protocol address) The address of every connected device in a TCP/IP network, which is the worldwide standard for the Internet as well as local networks in homes and companies. Every computer ...

Network devices use IP addresses and subnets to identify the source and destination of communications and manage network addresses respectively. IP addresses contain two parts: a network identifier ...