Ethernet/IP (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. EtherNet/IP is a communications protocol developed by Rockwell Automation, managed by ODVA and designed for use in process control and other industrial automation applications. EtherNet/IP is an application layer protocol and it considers all the devices on the network as a series of "objects." EtherNet/IP is built on the widely used, which makes seamless access to objects from controlNet and DeviceNet networks. EtherNet/IP makes use of existing network infrastructure and the entire EtherNet/IP stack can be implemented in software on a microprocessor. No special hardware such as or are required for implementing EtherNet/IP. EtherNet/IP is built on the standard TCP/IP stack, and makes use of all 7 layers of OSI reference model. Since EtherNet/IP makes use of Ethernet for physical layer, it becomes easier to tightly couple Enterprise Servers with the device data.