The IIoT is at the basis of the so-called Smart Factories, new advanced manufacturing units of the fourth industrial revolution. Smart sensors, super-fast connections, artificial intelligence ...

Quantum communication has presented a revolutionary step in secure communication due to its high security of the quantum information, and many communication protocols have been proposed, such as the ...

AnyWare handles both standard or custom protocols for hardware or software. Whether implemented in hardware or software, network protocol stacks are complex structures. As such, most are purchased ...

Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, CC-Link, Mudbus, OPC UA are common in industrial automation. SNMP, REST, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, ODBC, OLE-DB and OPC UA (again) are protocols common in the IT space.

Once again, too many standards are vying for dominance in solving a relatively simple problem. The IT industry needs to break this counterproductive pattern. You know the routine: The IT industry, ...

In decades past, communication security was the province of two widely separated domains. The task of authenticating users and ensuring security of the network channel was relegated to the network IT ...

Jini—Network Service Location Embedded network devices use infrastructures, like Sun's Jini, to locate network-based services. Jini thrives because most embedded devices support Java. Gateways provide ...