Claire Vacherot
Targeting an industrial protocol gateway
Inside industrial systems (also known as Operational Technology, or OT), devices communicate with each other and can be accessed over IP using familiar IT protocols (such as SSH, web services, etc.), as well as with a variety of industrial network protocols. Among them, you may have heard of Modbus, maybe S7comm, OPC-UA and a few others, but do you know all the industrial protocols you could find on industrial networks? It would take a lifetime to list them all, considering the field-specific standards, the manufacturer-dependent protocols and variations, the association-promoted specifications, and their numerous versions, layers, extensions and adaptations. In the end, an industrial process typically involves a collection of devices, servers and workstations that are likely to use many different protocols and still need to understand each other.
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