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25/02/2008
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In general, the industrial communications world is moving towards two generic solutions: wired, using Ethernet; and wireless, with technologies such as ZigBee coming to the fore.
Those technologies are fine if you’re designing new products or systems. But there’s an important factor to bear in mind when discussing industrial communications and that’s legacy. The reason, of course, is that there’s a lot of expensive machinery of various shapes and sizes out there and it’s no surprise that the owners of those machines should want to include them in their industrial networks.
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Author
Graham Pitcher
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