Posts Tagged ‘profinet’

You can use either a managed or an unmanaged Ethernet switch for PROFINET. Of course, if downtime is expensive for you, you will easily justify using a managed switch. (See past post.)  You can use an OPC-SNMP server to read information from a managed switch and display it and alarm it in an HMI. It’s…

Should I use a managed switch or an unmanaged switch with PROFINET? Yes. Yes, you should use either a managed or an unmanaged Ethernet switch with PROFINET. An unmanaged switch has no built-in intelligence except to send incoming Ethernet frames out the right port – the port that the destination device is connected to. And…

What should you tell your boss about PROFINET? Here’s the list, but the five things all come back to saving money. Maybe that’s why we often see PROFINET “accidentally” spelled PROFITNET. Legacy protection: you can update a system without doing a rip-and-replace of the existing fieldbus. Just use a PROFINET proxy to seamlessly integrate the…

Did you catch the new White Paper we posted? If not, here it is: PROFINET for network geeks (and those who want to be). Done yet? TL;DR (it’s only four pages!): The White Paper discusses the seven-layer ISO/OSI Reference Model, as well as how in the Ethernet world, these seven layers collapse down into four. It…