Networking Equipment Reference Materials

Description: Deploying an EtherNet/IP network can give food and beverage manufacturers flexibility, visibility and efficiency to boost production and meet changing demands. ...

Description: Modular patch panel solutions allow you to seamlessly and conveniently integrate equipment with 10 Gb, 40 Gb and 100/120 Gb speeds to meet your connectivity needs today - and cost-effectively ...

Description: A customer has multiple remote locations linked over an Ethernet network, each requiring discrete outputs. They all need to be sent the same communication signal at the same time. ...

Description: The CAN protocol is a proven, highly reliable communication system for harsh environments and has been used in automotive and industrial applications for over 30 years. The CAN two-wire bus ...

Description: A municipal zoo in upstate New York constructed a new habitat for their elephants and wanted to automate the giant, hydraulically operated gate system that controlled the elephant's movement within ...

Description: Nowadays wireless video surveillance camera is in huge demand. People prefer wireless camera because of its best picture quality, inexpensive and easy installation. With its smart RF technology, the ...

Description: A bridge in internet networks helps in connecting different networks. A Wireless Ethernet Bridge is used for connecting multiple devices that are on a Wired Ethernet network to a wireless network. The ...

Description: Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies used to connect electronic devices to Local Area Network (LAN) or Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). Systems communicating over this device, ...

Description: A Wireless bridge is the most convenient way to connect two or more LAN sections without the use of Ethernet cables, which run between two separate LAN segments. Various local area networks can be ...

Description: In infrastructure development, a bridge is constructed to connect two locations that are separated due to a certain distance. They are used to connect places that have been separated by a water body ...

Description: Security camera is the best way to protect your environment from burglars or any mischievous events. It can be used anywhere such as residential complexes, farmhouse, industrial areas, commercial ...

Description: Electric power is converted into radio waves with the help of an Antenna during radio and television broadcasting. This electrical device is usually installed in a radio transmitter or a receiver. ...

Description: Antenna has become one of the essential parts in multimedia accessories. It is in the top priority list among many industrial and residential sectors. The system of Wireless Antenna takes upper hand ...

Description: Video Surveillance plays a pivotal role when it comes to security and is gaining popularity because of its easy installation and simplicity that it provides. Equipments like video and audio recorder, ...

Description: The advent of Indoor Distributed Antenna System (IDAS) networks has greatly increased the capacity and reach of wireless service in public venues such as sports stadiums, convention centers and ...

Description: License Plate Recognition is the hottest technology in law enforcement and has been compared to the radio relative to its positive and effective impact on policing efforts. In vehicle secure PoE ...

Description: A KVM (Keyboard, Video, and Mouse) Switch is a device that allows you to control multiple computers from a single keyboard, video monitor and mouse console. This can be particularly beneficial when ...

Description: Racks are frame structures designed for mounting standard 19" rack-mount equipment-servers, routers, UPS systems, switches, audio/video-regardless of vendor. They provide rack equipment organization, ...

Description: Post-production - a critical service for the entertainment, broadcast and media industries - has experienced dramatic change on all fronts over the past decade. Remarkable advances in the technology ...

Description: In most cases, an organization's KVM and Video Routing systems are considered mission or business critical. These systems are typically deployed in areas that are core to the mission or business ...

Description: The oil and gas industry faces a multitude of complex business challenges. Asset Integrity Management (AIM) is an overarching approach designed to address these challenges by getting people, processes ...

Description: This document explains how to use IEEE 1394 (FireWire) cameras with NI products. ...

Description: This tutorial is meant as a starting point for using NI-VISA to communicate with an Ethernet device. It will provide a brief overview of both NI-VISA and the Ethernet bus followed by a tutorial on ...

Description: A Local Area Network (LAN), or Ethernet, platform is the ubiquitous standard for networking PCs and connecting to the Internet. With the ability to span long distances, it also has become a popular ...

Description: Advances in networking technologies are continuously changing not only the way we do business, but also the way we setup our instrumentation systems. In this session, we cover fundamentals of ...

Description: Serial is a device communication protocol that is standard on almost every PC. Do not confuse it with universal serial bus (USB). Most computers include two EIA-232 based serial ports. Serial is also ...

Description: Serial is a common device communication protocol for instrument control because most computers and many remote instruments include at least one serial port. Single applications can be used across a ...

Description: With plug-and-play connectivity and the near ubiquity of USB ports on modern PCs and laptops, USB has become a popular choice for controlling stand-alone instrumentation. As more instrument ...

Description: LAN is one of several buses used to connect instruments to a PC. While there have been many claims that LAN(or other buses) are ideal for all applications, the reality is that each bus has different ...

Description: This tutorial is meant as a starting point for using NI-VISA to communicate with a USB device. It is not intended as a starting point for learning about USB architecture or the various protocols used ...

Description: Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple ...

Description: Data centers today lack a formal system for classifying software management tools. As a result, confusion exists regarding which management systems are necessary and which are optional for secure and ...

Description: Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data ...

Description: Significant improvements in efficiency, power density, power monitoring, and reconfigurability have been achieved in data center power distribution. The past techniques of massive transformer-based ...

Description: Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today's power and cooling technology. The independence of these ...

Description: System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, ...

Description: Before data center infrastructure efficiency can be benchmarked using PUE or other metrics, there must be agreement on exactly what power consumptions constitute IT loads, what consumptions constitute ...

Description: There is a growing consensus that conventional legacy data center design will be superseded by modular scalable data center designs. Reduced total cost of ownership, increased flexibility, reduced ...

Description: Are complicated software and instrumentation needed to measure and allocate energy costs and carbon to IT users? Or can we get by with simple, low cost methods for energy cost and carbon allocation? ...

Description: Field busses are industrial control systems using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) to control and manage field devices found in industrial environments. The communication medium can be any ...

Description: Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited ("HKBN") is a leading broadband service provider with the most residential high-speed broadband subscriptions of symmetric 100Mbps and above in Hong Kong, offering ...

Description: Several of the engineers implementing device-level networks and Ethernet in our machines want more machine-to-machine communication capabilities to supposedly help our customers. Some of our managers ...

Description: Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. Most can recount horror stories about how bad luck, human error, or just simple ...

Description: Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data ...

Description: Significant improvements in efficiency, power density, power monitoring, and reconfigurability have been achieved in data center power distribution. The past techniques of massive transformer-based ...

Description: Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today's power and cooling technology. The independence of these ...

Description: System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, ...

Description: Before data center infrastructure efficiency can be benchmarked using PUE or other metrics, there must be agreement on exactly what power consumptions constitute IT loads, what consumptions constitute ...

Description: There is a growing consensus that conventional legacy data center design will be superseded by modular scalable data center designs. Reduced total cost of ownership, increased flexibility, reduced ...

Description: Are complicated software and instrumentation needed to measure and allocate energy costs and carbon to IT users? Or can we get by with simple, low cost methods for energy cost and carbon allocation? ...

Description: The installation of remote radio systems poses new challenges for mobile operators, installers and system integrators. What installation methods are available and what are their advantages? How can a ...

Description: Common network mistakes that cost money, cause downtime, and create frustration. What these mistakes all have in common is that they mainly reflect a lack of planning. A network that runs smoothly and ...

Description: LAN validation is an element of the LAN and WLAN installation and maintenance workflow, and it is the final task associated with installation and upgrade projects. A network installation or upgrade ...

Description: What's in this standard? ...

Description: Add low-voltage devices and network equipment in industrial environments without running power. The Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard, which was adopted in June 2003, enables users to power devices ...

Description: The Canada-based energy-delivery company needed to capture time-lapsed photography of construction-site projects located in the far north. The requirements involved transmitting digital image data ...

Description: Intra-office communications were complex and costly for Norbert Dentressangle operations in Italy. Routing internal calls (among main and branch offices) through Telecom Italia was tallying up ...

Description: Small to medium-sized companies are interested in the cost savings of VoIP communications but are tied to their investment in traditional telephony equipment or they don't have the money to invest in ...

Description: With each passing day, the volume of digital information fl owing through the world's data networks grows at an ever increasing rate. The growth of server virtualization, cloud computing, and trend ...

Description: Wi-Fi connectivity is being utilized to improve electronic health records (EHR). The updating and implementation as mandated in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement makes this essential. Medical device ...

Description: Cable shielding must be connected at both ends to the equipment shielding, otherwise, it provides almost no benefit. Support for this statement is illustrated by simplified models in this article. ...

Description: As part of a continuing effort to make their organizations more efficient and productive, manufacturers are rapidly migrating to Industrial Ethernet technology. This standards-based technology enables ...

Description: Traditionally, the specialized SCADA-based systems used for the monitoring and management of water pumping facilities were physically isolated from other networks, making it difficult or impossible to ...

Description: The midstream oil and gas markets, primarily transport and storage, typically use three types of networks. The first type is for control and for safety shutdown systems, typically starting at the ...

Description: PoE (Power over Ethernet) is one of the hottest topics in Ethernet networking applications today. In this white paper, we will introduce the basics of PoE technology and the new 802.3at standard, ...

Description: Is slow roaming speed between your mobile network's access points hindering your industrial application's performance? If so, then high speed roaming may be the solution you're looking for. In this ...

Description: The 21st century has seen a huge increase in using Ethernet for industrial automation applications such as remote monitoring. However, the advantages and versatility obtained from using Ethernet for ...

Description: The term "Fieldbus" refers to a collection of communication protocols that were introduced to replace 4 to 20 mA analog signals. Fieldbus protocols include DF1, PROFIBUS, and Modbus for serial, and ...

Description: According a recent VDC report, more than 40% of wireless users are concerned about interference, and this issue is even more important for industrial and critical applications. Interference normally ...

Description: This white paper will explore the various challenges presented byexisting redundant networking technologies and introduce a new redundant solution that resolves many existing problems. ...

Description: With easy integration into a standard LAN infrastructure, Power over Ethernet (PoE) allows both electrical power and data to be delivered to network devices through one standard network cable. ...

Description: At least 50% of all power meter users make this mistake. It has happened to you. You measured an RF power level and later someone said, "...but I measured the power and got a different number." Who ...

Description: This white paper will explain the difference between traditional commercial controlled environments and harsh, industrial environments as well as the type of cabling and interconnectivity products to ...

Description: This White Paper provides an overview of Power Over Ethernet (PoE) and details the PoE variations that are used in today's telecommunications networks. ...

Description: Heavy industry often makes use of large machinery such as boom bucket wheel stacker-reclaimers. These are massive, distributed systems that could improve their productivity and efficiency with modern ...

Description: This white paper is your guide to choosing the ideal computer for your rolling stock application. As the major component of a railway system, rolling stock presents some unique hardware design and ...

Description: "Blazing speeds" of 300 to 400 bits per secondwere common during the days of a single T1 connection to the Chautauqua CountyHome skilled nursing facility. The low-speed microwave link to county ...

Description: Located in Dortmund, Germany, LocaNet oHG implements secure IT, Internet and converged-communications solutions based on Asterisk open source software. LocaNet's flagship product, "LocaPhone," is a ...

Description: Switzerland's largest triple-play and cable-network service provider was expanding. With residential TV, Internet and telephony services in place, Cablecom wanted to increase their subscriber base and ...

Description: Out in the wild mountains of Wyoming, near the borders of Montana, Idaho and Yellowstone National Park, sits a rustic camp for the Boy Scouts of America-Camp Loll. The camp's communication system is ...

Description: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) offers tremendous cost-savings for the enterprise by means of reduced or eliminated telephony charges, consolidated network architectures, and reduced network ...

Description: SIP-powered telephony is paving the way to the new world of Unified Communications. For traditional PBX systems as well as state-of-the-art all-IP telephony implementations, SIP trunking connects ...

Description: Bao Le is a visionary. As Sales Director for Song Phat (www.SongPhat .com)-a Systems Integrators and Distributors for IT equipment and services in Viet Nam-he was among the first in his country to ...

Description: Transitioning from existing systems to next generation networking presents the dual challenge of preserving essential legacy applications in harsh environments that are hostile to network equipment. ...

Description: The ubiquitous router is the gear that makes Internet connectivity and communications possible. New price benchmarks are being set for low-cost routers as they are being commoditized. Commodity ...

Description: One source of alternate clean energy is use of windmills for electrical power generation. Today's advanced windmills provide many sensors within the nacelle all connected to a PC to monitor and ...

Description: Avionics system architects have a wide variety of commercial off the shelf (COTS) choices for networking technologies. The challenge facing many system architects is choosing a cost effective ...

Description: MIL-STD-1553 has served the needs of military system integrators for over 30 years, particularly in the area of command and control applications. Nevertheless, contemporary applications such as ...

Description: Fibre Channel is a high-speed networking technology deployed on a number of military/aerospace platforms and programs. These include F-18E/F, F-16, F-35, B1-B, B-2, E-2D, the Apache Longbow and MMH ...

Description: Fiber connectors are terminated onto optical cable to provide a separable interface that allows for moves, adds and changes (MACs). This allows for such media to be deployed into enclosures and panels ...

Description: For years, mobile network operators have relied on E1 leased lines to backhaul traffic from cellular base station sites to mobile switching centers. With the Patton OnSite series of µMSPP platforms, ...

Description: Over the years, the number of buildings with fiber connectivity is increasing at a very fast pace. Fiber-to-the building opens new and exciting possibilities for carriers and services providers that ...

Description: Most service providers have existing SDH networks that have proven indispensable in serving revenue-critical TDM-based private line services. SDH is firmly established as the technology of choice for ...

Description: Patton's OS-10 series of µMSPP platforms enable you to meet the full range of leased line access network requirements for business users. The OS-10 series is a family of high value access platforms ...

Description: Industrial operations -- such as manufacturing, oil and gas production, mining, and others -- have much to gain from the convergence of voice and data communications. With powerful new ease-of-use ...

Description: This techical artical covers the steps to run CTLB series cable through... ...

Description: This white paper will cover a brief history of computer networking as well as the basics of how to set up an Ethernet Network. Other items covered include both wired and wireless network ...

Description: This white paper covers where and when to employ Layer 3 routing at the edge of a network. This paper also provides definitions and applications for several widely used routing protocols including ...

Description: This white paper outlines specific installation considerations when installing a WLAN antenna including Fresnel Zones, LOS, reflection, multipath etc. ...

Description: The project involves creating systems that integrate real-time information from production facilities with asset data, and then transmitting the information to ONGC's corporate data center to manage ...