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Crash Course: Client/Server/Master/Slave

By Jérôme Prat - Technical Support Manager Filed in Technology focus,

Sometimes, if you're not used to dealing with industrial communications, you may not exactly know what some terms mean, like master or client.

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Extending their connected enterprise: How ProSoft is showing customers the value of the IIoT

By Subhajit Bagchi - Former General Manager, ProSoft Technology Filed in White papers, IIoT

The physical world is being digitized as connectivity is added to more and more objects. Industrial IoT is the ongoing digitization of the critical infrastructure and the associated additional value that its owners and operators can derive from it.

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A wide range of autonomous gateways

By Lauren Robeson - Global Communications Specialist Filed in Videos, Gateways

ProSoft Technology’s PLX30 Ethernet and Serial Gateways are powerful, cost-effective solutions for transferring data between devices that use different protocols.

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Why Does PROFINET Need an IP Address?

By Carl Henning - Then-Deputy Director, PI North America Filed in Technology focus, Gateways

An oft-heard question: “Why does a PROFINET device need an IP address? PROFINET uses names.” You may have heard the misinformation that PROFINET does not use TCP/IP. The correct information is that PROFINET does use TCP/IP and devices do have IP addresses!

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Keeping currents safe for aluminum supplier

By Lauren Robeson - Global Communications Specialist Filed in Application stories, Wireless

The process of aluminum production is a long and potentially hazardous one if precautions are not in place. Clauser Dunkerque, a company based in France, knows the challenges involved and the precision required, and set about to strengthen communications in the aluminum production process for a supplier in the Middle East.

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Did you know ProSoft’s Siemens Industrial Ethernet driver can be used with an S7-1500 CPU?

By Clément Bitsch - Technical Support Engineer Filed in Technology focus, In-chassis

ProSoft Technology’s Siemens® Industrial Ethernet driver acts only as a Client. It initiates the communication to the S7-1500 CPU in order to read and write application data to the controller [...]

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