While several aspects of smart building operation may be regarded like the Wild West, with rules and standards undefined, multiple generations of standards already exist for the communications cabling systems serving these properties.
SPE offers the security that many purpose-built systems lack, and is optimized to reduce labor and materials costs in a network’s physical layer.
This presentation, from the Fall 2022 BICSI Conference, discusses why SPE technology is important to Building Automation Systems, provides an overview of standards and applications, and an update on SPE development.
Steve Cowles and special guests Bob Voss, and Arvind Patel discuss Single Pair Ethernet benefits and use cases.They also give an update on the recently released TIA-568.5
Balanced Single Twisted-Pair Telecommunications Cabling and Components Standard.
New IEEE 802.3 standards and technologies deliver power and data over a single pair of wires to address the challenges of ‘operational technology” (OT) automation applications and simplify OT networks. This talk will explore some of the unique features and reasons for Single Pair Ethernet’s growing adoption in the OT space leveraging modern technology to revisit core Ethernet features and speeds suitable for automation and control applications.
WNew IEEE 802.3 standards and technologies deliver power and data over a single pair of wires to address the challenges of ‘operational technology” (OT) automation applications and simplify OT networks. This talk will explore some of the unique features and reasons for Single Pair Ethernet’s growing adoption in the OT space leveraging modern technology to revisit core Ethernet features and speeds suitable for automation and control applications.
Experts consider Single Pair Ethernet to be the next generation of communication architecture in automation. The concept behind it is essentially an extension of the Ethernet to the sensor, that is wherever “tracks” (in the literal sense) rather than data highways are needed in every inch of space within the plant – it is compact, flexible and offers extensive reach. Download Weidmueller’s White Paper.
Read this CI&M interview on emerging SPE standards and technologies with Adnan Ahmed, Valerie Maguire, Harshang Pandya and Bob Voss, members of TIA’s Single Pair Ethernet Consortium (SPEC).
The $64,000 question is: Has copper finally outlived its usefulness? The short answer is no. There will continue to be certain low-bandwidth, short-reach applications for smaller data centers where copper’s low price point outweighs its performance limitations. So too, there will likely be a role for CPOs and front-panel-pluggable transceivers.
High speed direct attach cables (DACs) are keeping up with increasing requirements in data centers, ensuring that switch-to-server network interface connections don’t become the weakest link. DACs have the lowest latency of all short-reach connection options. This is due to measurable delays in optical connections that actively change copper signals to optical signals and then back to copper signals.
