An open future: the move to standard Ethernet - We look at the benefits of standard Ethernet to the machine builder

摘要

In the past, Ethernet was not seen as good enough for high performance machine control. This led many automation companies to design closed chipsets, creating their own versions of Ethernet, which could not communicate with other systems. But this has changed in recent years; the growing capabilities and popularity of Ethernet has seen the adoption of industry standards like IEEE 1588 and has driven chip makers to provide more competitive components.