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Figure 1-1 Industrial Ethernet and PROFINET in the SIMATIC NET environment
The distinguishing properties of SIMATIC NET include the following:
● Complete integration from the field level to the enterprise level,
● Coverage of the field area with Industrial Ethernet,
● Promotion of mobile communication,
● Integration of the IT technologies.
With these communication network options, SIMATIC products and intelligent devices can
be combined locally according to your requirements. Flexibility and openness of the
standards of SIMATIC communications networks make it possible to link different systems
and to implement extensions.
Thanks to its scalable performance, SIMATIC NET allows the implementation of enterprise-
wide communication – from the simplest device to the complex system. The SIMATIC NET
components used with Industrial Ethernet are particularly powerful. The devices of the
SCALANCE product family constitute the latest and most progressive generation of active
SIMATIC NET network components.
Industrial Ethernet
System Manual, 09/2019, C79000-G8976-C242-10
Basics of communication with Industrial Ethernet
1.2 Industrial Ethernet
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