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OVERVIEW

Ethernet Powerlink was created taking care of standard-compliance. It expands Ethernet with a mixed Polling- and Timeslicing mechanism. That brings:

  • guaranteed transfer of time-critical data in very short isocronic cycles with configurable response time

  • time-syncronisation of all nodes in the network with very high precision of sub-microseconds

  • transmission of less timecritical data in a reserved asynchronous channel


Modern implementations reach cycle-times of under 200µs and a time-precision (jitter) of less than 1µs.


STANDARDISATION


Ethernet-Powerlink is standisized by the opened user- and producer-group EPSG (Ethernet Powerlink Standardization Group) as a public standard.


OTHER

Ethernet Powerlink has nothing to do with Power Over Ethernet .


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