在过去的三十年中，人们看到的是工业网络的重要方面之一是发生的变化速度。现在，技术更新在整个市场中传播的速度比以往任何时候都要快得多。标准也发挥了作用，有时会遵循，有时是领先的变化。
Hence, with industrial Ethernet having now overtaken traditional fieldbus technologies in terms of the number of new nodes being installed, and influences such as Industry 4.0 having a profound impact on development, how well is industrial Ethernet suited to the demands of industrial network communication going forward?
CLPA千兆白皮书（可在http://awgo.to/gigabit上获得）考虑了工业以太网技术及其变化的技术方面及其对当前和将来应用程序场景的需求的适用性。
The impetus for change
任何给定技术的传播的经典模型，即创新，早期采用，扩散，巩固，标准化和替代品 - 具有相关性，但是在这里，外部影响会破坏通常的事件顺序，从而进行了巨大的变化。
Industry 4.0 is a case in point in how change is being driven from a conceptual standpoint. The practical challenges driven by Industry 4.0 include cross-platform integration, Big Data and the burgeoning proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), all of which are significant external forces affecting network technology development.
与FieldBus的采用和合并相比，工业控制网络应用中以太网应用程序的扩散非常迅速，并且仍在进行中。毫无疑问，以太网作为技术的开放性质也在加剧已经愤怒的发展时间表。逻辑表明，我们应该期望同样快速的合并和标准化很快。
The speed of all this change means that, as we embark on the journey to Industry 4.0, businesses need to carefully consider how to build their industrial communications infrastructure in order to remain competitive and thrive.
While industrial Ethernet networks can help future-proof your systems, the overall performance of these networks can also determine the success or failure of an enterprise. Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) demand seamless interconnection from the smallest sensor up to enterprise-level systems and beyond. Thus, the future depicted by these concepts is going to be built on data, and lots of it. This unprecedented volume of data can provide an actionable insight into the manufacturing processes. Therefore, the speed of data management capabilities of your network will be critically important.
The automation networking landscape
To succeed with all the data delivered by Industry 4.0, it is necessary to make the best use of the data without crippling the very communications systems being used to transmit it.
我们可能不知道这些未来的通信基础架构会是什么样，但是我们已经可以在云计算中看到一些线索。我们很快将在云中看到虚拟可编程逻辑控制器（PLC）和虚拟监管控制和数据采集（SCADA）之类的产品，从而从中收集数据并实时将其发送到工厂地板设备。
Therefore, industrial Ethernet networks are likely to remain a mainstay in industrial communications, helping to control industry, infrastructure and utilities by connecting different devices, machines, systems and users, regardless of where they are.
但是，并非所有工业以太网网络都是等效的。
在可用的各种以太网解决方案中，数据的传输可能差异很大。结果，他们的绩效影响了他们满足当前和未来数据共享需求的能力。无论我们可能认为什么网络和系统性能都足以满足当今的要求，将来我们将需要更多。
To help you make decisions around how to futureproof your industrial Ethernet network, the CLPA Gigabit white paper explains the properties that affect data transfer on industrial Ethernet networks. In addition, it looks at the design of CC-Link IE Field, how it compares with other solutions, and how this technology addresses the specific requirements of Industry 4.0.
To get a copy of the CLPA Gigabit White paper, visitawgo.to/gigabit.
