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Industrial Defender appointed Donald Simoneau senior vice president of worldwide operations, reporting to CEO Brian M. Ahern.

When should you use a managed Ethernet switch? This paper provides answers.

SIXNET acquired BlueTree Wireless Data, Inc., a supplier of Machine to Machine (M2M) Cellular Data Products.

ISA is recruiting Strategic Members, Technical Members, and Informational Members from the industrial community for the ISASecure program.

The non-commercial white paper describes how Modbus works, and how it can be used in new and legacy process control and automation systems.

Dust Networks won the Amec Award for Innovation and Excellence from the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).

The funding will support development of testing technologies to protect global critical infrastructure from cyber threats.

The 2008 Allied catalog showcases more than 100,000 products from 300 suppliers.

TASC provides a dedicated team of specialists from multiple disciplines who serve as a single-point resource for technical and application support.

The ISA100 standards committee outlined an approach to accommodate and eventually integrate the WirelessHART standard and the ISA100 standard.

Brochure describes the 32-year growth of CCSI in the design, manufacture, and support of networking products.

The Tofino Security Appliance from MTL and Byres Security achieved Foundation-level Mu Security Industrial Control (MUSIC) Certification.

Dave Kresse joined the company as chief executive officer, and Kris Nagel was appointed vice president of worldwide sales.

Schneider Electric sales for the third quartertotaled €4,468 million, up 28.4% from the year-earlier period.

Prospects for non-Ethernet device networks dwindle as Ethernet continues its migration into lower levels of the industrial automation hierarchy.

Reference Architectures include design guides, white papers as well as an educational seminar series that addresses the technical and cultural convergence of manufacturing and IT.

AeroAstro will provide ground network upgrades to Globalstar's deployed receivers to expand the current subscriber messaging capacity by 10 X and increase receiver sensitivity by up to 40 percent.

The Fieldbus Foundation held its second combined EMEA User and Industry Association Consultation Meeting in London, UK, from 17-19 September 2007.

Woodhead Industries provided the team with DeviceNet products which were integrated in this year’s Midnight Sun IX solar powered race car.

Industrial plants rely heavily on their automation, instrumentation and control data communications to relay signals between machinery, devices and control systems to activate events on an exacting and pre-determined schedule, with little or no margin for error. Plant managers and control network administrators also require optimal security, manageability and reliability so that network availability attains 99.999 percent uptime or better. Yet analysts report that a large percentage of unplanned downtime in industrial operations is caused by network infrastructure problems.