Performance Testing and Analysis for a Stable Ethernet Communication Link

To make organizations more efficient and flexible, manufacturers are rapidly migrating to Industrial Ethernet technology to network their industrial automation and control systems and connect plant and business systems to achieve business objectives. Industrial Ethernet enables a more flexible, responsive system that encompasses both real-time data from the production floor. This end to-end networking architecture provides connectivity, collaboration, and integration from the device level to enterprise business systems. In this paper performance of an Ethernet link established is tested and analyzed based on latency for different amount of network load on development board having ARM Cortex A8 core and a Ethernet interface.