New Industrial Ethernet switches from Cisco Systems concentrate on bringing enterprise IT capabilities to Operations Technology applications while also addressing performance, reliability and harsh environments.

Industrial networks are evolving as the seamless transmission of data is becoming the key to success in the converged, digital future. Industrial networking solutions help businesses transform and futureproof their operations, and improve operational efficiency and resilience.

Managed and unmanaged industrial Ethernet switches are the most common type of industrial power sourcing equipment to embed IEEE 802.3bt technology. Below are five reasons to upgrade your existing Industrial Ethernet switches to models with IEEE 802.3bt.

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Monitoring a natural gas supply network with EtherCAT terminals is designed for explosion protection. In terms of economic efficiency, the use of EtherCAT Terminals has led to significant cost reductions, according to Gaznat. Retrofitted stations show savings of around 50% compared to conventional systems.

Universal I/O is a relatively young technology that will continue to deliver value to process operators. Advances combined with the benefits of universal I/O will mean process operators can expect more efficient workflows and fewer headaches when deploying new and smarter process applications.

IoT remote monitoring is achieved using a data logger that provides a powerful tool and enables applications to become more intelligent and versatile. It can easily function as a data acquisition device to query PLCs and transmit information through NB-IOT/Cat-M1, lowering the cost of equipment construction and maintenance.

To achieve the level of dynamic control required for multi-ton loads of shipping containers traveling in three dimensions at high speed, data must be collected from several sources in real-time and processed instantly, so that the exact position and velocity are always known and can be adjusted.

Journey to securely streaming, smoothing, and storing time series embedded IoT data. A streaming database processes new real-time data, updating any registered queries’ results right away. And a time series database offers a software system tailored for the storage and delivery of associated pairs of timestamps and values.

Before Industry 4.0, OT devices and systems were “air-gapped” to isolate them from risk. That is not possible today. Industrial switches, media converters and wireless routers must feature robust, DoD-compliant layer 2 and layer 3 security that helps manage network traffic at scale.