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This is not your father's Ethernet
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April 7, 2006

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Register today for the Packaging Automation Forum
With seven content-rich sessions, this unique event promises to be one of the year's most insightful discussions of packaging controls and automation technology. Click here to register!. . . . Read more

Securing Your Plant
Welcome to the first installment of Automation World's Industrial Ethernet Review. In just a few years, Ethernet has become a de facto industrial networking standard. Even the industrial networks Devicenet, . . . Read more

Hack Attack
Open networks create paths for viruses to enter the plant floor. . . . Read more

Seeing Security Through Clear Lenses
Industrial networking leaders are studying potential and real security problems-and trying to lay a plan for combat. . . . Read more

Factory Ethernet Goes Mainstream
Over the past few years, industrial Ethernet networking has won adherens for its adaptability, efficiency and its ability fo assimilate wireless data. . . . Read more

Industrial Strength WiFi Ethernet
Billed as the first industrial WiFi product to offer a Lifetime Warranty, the 240U-E Industrial WiFi Wireless Ethernet is an industrial strength 802.11 unit designed to provide reliable, high-speed connectivity . . . Read more

Ethernet Expansion Unit
The PACSystems RX3i Ethernet Network Interface Unit (ENIU) makes it possible to use the vendor's PACSystems RX3i controller and Series 90-30 I/O remotely on an Ethernet network. Once set up . . . Read more

8-port Ethernet Switches
The EIS Series is a new line of industrial Ethernet 8-port switches. The top-of-the-line EIS-408 model is Web-managed and provides six 10/100Base-TX copper ports and two 100Base-FX fiber ports. On . . . Read more

Cyber Security for Ethernet
Rugged Operating System (ROS) version 3.0 for the RuggedSwitch family of industrially hardened Ethernet switches provides additional cyber security features, as well as network performance and optimization for mission-critical applications. . . . Read more

Cost-effective Ethernet Switch
At a price of $99, the five-port 10/100Mbps Skorpion-5 industrial Ethernet switch is designed to meet customer expectations in a cost-effective package. ³We provide value to our customers by offering . . . Read more

Connect Barcode Readers to Ethernet
The DeviceServer enables 1D and 2D barcode readers to connect to industrial Ethernet. Up to 16 barcode readers can be connected and controlled over a single Ethernet address, and multiple . . . Read more

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