The Fieldbus and DeviceNet standards are becoming a standard at the field and instrumentation level and replacing the traditional approaches in the plant today. Ethernet is also fast becoming the obvious choice for industrial control networking worldwide.
While the basic structure of Ethernet has not changed much, the faster technologies such as Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet have increased the complexity and choices you have available in planning and designing these systems.
There has also been a convergence between Fieldbus and DeviceNet standards in that they are also increasingly becoming based on industrial Ethernet for the higher speed data transfer applications.
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