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Recipe for a Robust Ethernet Network
There are two things we know about Ethernet used in manufacturing and production and one thing to be aware of for the future. First, Ethernet has become the de facto standard network in many industries. Its use even to the input/output (I/O) level has become common. Second, since Ethernet is used by both enterprise and industrial systems, it has become the...
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Didier Collas commenting on the question posed on Automation World's LinkedIn Group about where innovation on the factory floor will go in the next 10 years.
Source: LinkedIn, bit.ly/awslant012
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 | April 24, 2012

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 | April 17, 2012

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The Avio F120 is the first in a new line of fiber-optic KVM extenders designed for graphics-intensive and visualization applications running on control room workstations.
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