The technical forum provides access to technical advice from some of the leading international industrial ethernet companies. Technical expertise and a wealth of experience is available from Belden Wire & Cable, Contemporary Controls, Hirschmann Electronics, INAT, RuggedCom, Siemens A&D and Westermo Data Communications, who together form our panel of experts.

This panel is freely available to answer all of your industrial ethernet questions on subjects such as networking infrastructure, ethernet technology, protocols, certification and standards. Questions are invited from end users, system integrators and OEM’s, and will be moderated by The Industrial Ethernet Book. Reasonable questions will be answered the same day.

Please take a look at some of the questions that have already been answered before posing your question (you may find it has been answered already). Please note vendors are welcome to submit questions, but The Industrial Ethernet Book will not allow a debate as to who has the best products, so please use this service responsibly.

If your question concerns wireless ethernet, please go to our companion website The Industrial Wireless Book and post your question there.