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.

There were 18.8 billion IoT connections in 2024, according to market research firm IoT Analytics. And researchers there estimated the number of IoT connections will swell to 41.1 billion by 2030. The ...

Network protocols are formal standards and policies consisting of rules, procedures, and formats that define how data is exchanged over networks. They ensure that devices can communicate effectively, ...

Last time, one of our readers challenged VoIP market leaders Cisco, Nortel and Avaya on their commitment to open standard, cost-effective VoIP solutions. Today, we’d like to add our observations and ...

Several important new standards for optical networking were adopted by the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in November. The new standards provide the ability to combine ...

Now having pushed past its half-century anniversary, the seemingly countless forms of Ethernet, from SPE to PoE, have become an integral part of communications systems across every technological field ...

Management processes conducted on a periodic basis to identify, report, and analyze reasonably foreseeable internal and external risks and vulnerabilities, likely threats, impacts, and potential ...

Broadcasters and media organizations are facing a strategic reset. Rising content costs, declining ARPU, platform fragmentation, and an accelerating shift towards cloud-based operations are straining ...

The volume and reach of connected things are rapidly expanding, with 2020 marking the first time that the number of IoT connections surpassed the number of non-IoT online connections. There were 11.7 ...