Early concerns about Ethernet as an automation network included its lack of real-time capabilities. But several new approaches seek to overcome this limitation. One company making waves in the ...

Evolving from simply an IT network, Ethernet has become the dominant network technology linking controllers with SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) and plant-wide information systems.

In today’s data center you need to be able to add services and hardware without compromising network performance, but the flexibility to tune the network to meet business needs is also mandatory. The ...