Siemens' ERTEC Controller Wins Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award
In January, 2006, Siemens' PROFINET Enhanced Real Time Ethernet Controller (ERTEC) with integrated switch functionality was recognized by Control Engineering magazine with an Editors’ Choice Award in the Networks and Communication category. This Siemens controller was among 45 Editors’ Choice winners selected from the thousands of products presented in Control Engineering during 2005.
The jury was particularly impressed by the ability of the ERTEC to manage both standard TCP/IP communication and real-time PROFINET communication simultaneously on the same network. The ERTEC Controller uses a real-time communication cycle in which time-critical real-time data is exchanged in predefined and exact isochronous intervals, while in the remaining time the standard TCP/IP packets are transmitted. Thus, this Siemens switch maximizes the efficiency of the available bandwidth, even with a large number of network nodes.
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