New ProductsJanuary 13, 2020

T1 industrial interface

A fully standardised interface for industrial M3I3C3E3 applications (IEC 63171-6) will be released this year, creating an established interface for Single Pair Ethernet applications in the industrial sector. HARTING had begun developing the interface as far back as 2016.

In addition to the standardisation of the mating face, an international selection process saw both the international and the American standardisation bodies (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25/WG 3 and TIA TR42) establish the T1 Industrial style as the SPE mating face for industry and industry-related applications in 2018.

This decision is further supported by the important Ethernet standard IEEE802.3. Hence a broad consensus exists within all the major standardisation bodies: ISO/IEC, TIA and IEEE. Consequently, the future SPE interface for industrial applications has been finalised and has a name – the T1 Industrial.