Profinet can bring determinism to the factory floor by skipping the TCP/UDP and IP layers of the ISO/OSI Model and going directly from the data link layer (Layer 2) to the application layer (Layer 7) ...

A tutorial on the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) networking reference model plus tips on how to memorize the seven layers. The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model is a conceptual framework ...

The OSI stack is what most people refer to when they say Ethernet. The Physical layer includes such standards as IEEE ... Ethernet Powerlink, EtherNet/IP, ProfiNet and Sercos III are some of the ...