IP communication

Conventional IP communication, for example e-mail, web services or proprietary real-time protocols from third parties, are handled outside the sercos telegrams in a so-called NRT (non-realtime) channel. This unencrypted IP channel, which sits directly on top of the Ethernet layer, has a number of advantages:

• Slave test and configuration without initialized real-time Ethernet and master hardware
• Direct addressing of sercos devices by means of the MAC or IP address
• Standard Ethernet devices such as laptops can be connected directly to sercos devices via any free sercos port
• Full computational performance for the application, because the master does not have to encrypt or fragment the IP packages

   

sercos III - highly flexible and open for all types of communication