Local Area Networks (LAN) are extremely important in the fully interconnected world we live in today, acting as the backbone that enable the interaction between IT elements. They are also used to link local IT systems with the internet.
In the industrial world, LANs are even more critical, fulfilling real-time communication requirements to the interaction of the different elements present in SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition).
This paper focuses on the new enhancements of the most widespread LAN:Ethernet, and how they allow the standard to achieve a prominent position in the industrial world.
