Ethernet
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Version: 1.6
8.2
PROFINET
PROFINET is the open Industrial Ethernet-standard of the PNO (PROFIBUS User Organisation). PROFINET
IO describes the exchange of data between controllers and field devices in several real-time classes: RT
(software-based real-time) and IRT (hardware-supported isochronous real-time). In addition, further Ethernet
traffic can be transmitted in the NRT (non-real-time) time slot of the PROFINET cycle. RT can be networked
with commercially available switches; switches with corresponding hardware support are required for IRT.