Industrial Communications Handbook

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Contents
Comment by Professor Ian Jandrell 1
Chapter 1: Introduction 4
1.1 History 5
1.2 Going forward 5
1.3 Greenfield 5
1.4 Wrap-up 6
Chapter 2: Radio Basics 8
2.1 Time, length, phase 9
2.2 Wavelengths, antennas, etc 9
2.3 Radiation 10
2.4 Polarisation 12
2.5 Radiation pattern 12
Chapter 3: Applying Wireless in Practice 14
3.1 How far? 15
3.2 Line of sight 15
3.3 Indoor and diversity 16
3.4 Wireless coexistence 17
Chapter 4: Security of the Physical Network 20
4.1 Communications technology of choice for mission-critical systems 21
4.2 A threat defined 21
4.3 Physical security 21
4.4 External devices 22
4.5 Direct access devices 22
Chapter 5: Security at a Wireless/ Logical Level 28
5.1 Wireless meets wires 29
5.2 Outdated firmware 29
5.3 (pa$$.wOrds) 29
5.4 Secure versus unsecure networks 30
5.5 Firewalls 30
5.6 Virtual Private Networks 31
5.7 An ounce of prevention 32
5.8 Monitoring 33
Chapter 6: Greenfield 36
6.1 A fresh start 37
6.2 Hardware 37
6.3 Cabling 37
6.4 Logical topology and redundancy 38
6.5 VLANs 38
6.6 IP address structures 39
6.7 Routing 41
6.8 Firewalls 41
6.9 Less stress 41
Chapter 7: EtherNet on Steroids 42
7.1 Time sensitive networking 43
7.2 Trusted wireless 2.0 45
7.3 Industrial network market share 47
Chapter 8: Conclusion 48
8.1 Concluding remarks
8.2 References 49
About the authors 50
Abbreviations 51