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Real-time Ethernet

 In real-time Ethernet technology, there are five main competitors: Ethernet PowerLink, PROFINET, SERCOS III, EtherCAT and Ethernet/IP. The open source real-time communication technology Ethernet POWERLINK is the latest technology to solve the real-time data transmission in the field of industrial control and data acquisition on the standard Ethernet medium. It follows the ISO model. In a sense, POWERLINK is CANopen on Ethernet. The physical layer and data link layer use the Ethernet medium, while the application layer retains the original structure of the SDO and PDO object dictionary. PROFINET is introduced by PROFIBUS International (PROFIBUS International, PI), which is a new generation of automation bus standard based on industrial Ethernet technology. According to its real-time ability, it can be divided into three communication methods: ProfiNet TCP/IP, ProfiNet RT (real-time 5-10ms response time), ProfiNet IRT (synchronous real-time response time less than 1ms). SERCOS III was d