IEN Europe: At SPS 2024, you introduced the ADIN6310 6-port Industrial Ethernet Time Sensitive Networking Switch. What are the main benefits and what applications can it be used for?
Mihalis: Next generation Factory and Process Automation networks require a single network supporting both real-time, mission critical and non-real time data. Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) enables IT/OT network convergence.
The ADIN6310 is a flexible Deterministic Ethernet Switch platform that provides:
- Six high throughput, low latency Ethernet ports
- TSN subsystem manages real-time communications
- Flexibility to select the host processor and PHY for optimal application fit
- Various redundancy features for seamless failover and improved network uptime (i.e., high availability).
- Packet Assist Engine offloading host processor increases application performance and efficiency, and reduces SW development time
- Various time synchronization protocols
- NETCONF/YANG support for simplified network and device configuration management
Applications that can benefits from the ADIN6310 are: Factory and Process Automation, Motion Control and Robots, Energy Automation, and Instrumentation.
IEN Europe: With the convergence of IT and OT systems, networks need to handle more data in more complex environments. How can the ADIN6310 support the need for the highest possible network availability?
Mihalis: The ADIN6310 supports three different high availability or redundancy protocols to ensure maximum network uptime:
- 802.1CB Frame Replication and Elimination for Reliability (FRER): Provides redundancy by sending two copies of a message through maximally disjointed paths to ensure delivery.
- High-Availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR): Provides seamless failover by sending duplicate frames over two different paths. If one path fails, the data can still reach its destination via the other path without any delay or packet loss
- Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP): Provides redundancy by sending duplicate frames over two separate, fail-independent networks (LAN A and LAN B). If one network fails, the other ensures continuous data transmission without any loss.
IEN Europe: Thank you for sharing this information with us.
