Industrial Communications Handbook August 2016

Contents

Comment by Professor Ian Jandrell

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Chapter 1: Introduction

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1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4

History

Going forward

Greenfield

Wrap-up

Chapter 2: Radio Basics

2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5

Time, length, phase

Wavelengths, antennas, etc

Radiation

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Polarisation

Radiation pattern

Chapter 3: Applying Wireless in Practice 14 3.1 How far? 15 3.2 Line of sight 15 3.3 Indoor and diversity 16 3.4 Wireless coexistence 17

Chapter 4: Security of the Physical Network

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4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9

Communications technology of choice for mission-critical systems

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A threat defined Physical security External devices

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Direct access devices

Chapter 5: Security at a Wireless/ Logical Level

Wireless meets wires Outdated firmware

(pa$$.wOrds)

Secure versus unsecure networks

Firewalls

Virtual Private Networks An ounce of prevention

Monitoring

Chapter 6: Greenfield

A fresh start

Hardware

Cabling

Logical topology and redundancy

VLANs

IP address structures

Routing Firewalls Less stress

Chapter 7: EtherNet on Steroids

7.1 7.2 7.3

Time sensitive networking

Trusted wireless 2.0

Industrial network market share

Chapter 8: Conclusion

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8.1 8.2

Concluding remarks

References

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About the authors

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Abbreviations

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