Connectivity is ubiquitous in industrial settings, and now it is increasingly used in non-commercial applications, too, ranging from on-board entertainment on trains, to video transmission from military drones. In all of them, Ethernet switches play a crucial role. As the world becomes more interconnected, the number of devices increases every day. Research firm McKinsey states that 127 new devices are connected every second; so, by the time you reach the end of this article, around 38,100 new devices would have been connected. These figures are even more significant if we count the local area networks (LANs) consisting of connected, critical embedded systems in sectors such as industrial, offshore, military and defence, rail and others.
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