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News Release from: IDC Technologies | Subject: July workshops
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 June 2005
Ethernet and Modbus workshops
Ethernet and Modbus communications systems feature in two new 2 day July training workshops from IDC Technologies, at various locations around the UK
Practical Troubleshooting and Problem Solving of Ethernet Networks is running in London on the 7th and 8th July, in Birmingham on the 11th and 12th July and in Manchester on the 14th and 15th July 2005 Ethernet is fast becoming the obvious choice for industrial control networking worldwide
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While the basic structure of Ethernet has not changed much, the faster technologies such as Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet have increased the complexity of planning and designing these systems.
The workshop commences with a brief outline of the fundamentals of Ethernet and its operation.
Access is discussed in depth and topics such as full duplex and auto negotiation are explained.
The design and installation of the cabling systems are then explored with the discussion ranging from 10Base-T over twisted pair to Gigabit Ethernet cabling.
Methods of optimising Ethernet to obtain best performance are then defined.
Finally troubleshooting is examined with a summary of the typical problems likely to be encountered, from a two station network all the way up to a system comprising 30,000 PCs.
Troubleshooting and Problem Solving of Modbus Plus Protocols is the second workshop being run in July; in Manchester on the 18th and 19th, in Edinburgh on the 21st and 22nd and in London on the 25th and 26th.
The objective of this workshop is to help delegates identify, prevent and fix common industrial data communications problems focussing on the Modbus protocol.
Modbus based industrial communications systems (based on RS-232/RS-485 and Ethernet) are being installed throughout industry today.
Delegates will gain an understanding of the protocols and standards that transport Modbus.
These include such standards as RS-485/RS- 232 and Ethernet (preferably Industrial Ethernet) and TCP/IP.
Modbus, effectively one of the few (arguably, the only) industrial messaging protocols recognised by the Internet world (port 502) has one of the largest installed bases worldwide with more than 7.2 million installed nodes.
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