Ethernet blazed new ground in terms of giving manufacturing-only field buses a run for their money. Is FireWire poised to be the next consumer-market bus to hit industry?
Several years ago, multiple companies and organizations pushed their own industrial networking bus standards. While some still do, Ethernet – right under our collective, industrial noses – has become an extremely useful and powerful networking standard, even in manufacturing. Another consumer technology is poised to make the move to the manufacturing space: FireWire/IEEE 1394. Its capabilities are impressive, with a single FireWire bus handling up to 64 devices at up to 400 Mbps. Note ‘Using FireWire to Simplify Real-Time Industrial Control‘ and ‘It’s Time to Get Fired Up.’
Will 2005 be the year of industrial FireWire?
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