Industrial Ethernet has many technical advantages:
- Transmission of real-time and IT data via a common medium
- Virtually unlimited number of participants and network expansion
- Flexible topologies which can easily be scaled and expanded
- Quick transmission even of extremely large data volumes
- Integration of web servers and IoT interfaces such as OPC UA within the device
- Simple access to field level device data without proprietary gateways
- Reliable in operation, no complex termination, simple maintenance
- Future proof