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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedXML gains popularity as industrial communications standard.(Industrial Networks)
MSI, August, 2004
XML (eXtensible markup language) is becoming the most popular protocol for sending data across industrial Ethernet networks, according to a recent report by Venture Development Corp. (VDC), a Natick, Mass.based research firm. Users are opting for XML over other protocols in both wired and wireless enviromnents.
Alternative wired protocols include PROFInet and Foundation Fieldbus, while wireless alternatives to XML include wireless markup language (WML) and wireless application protocol (WAP). An equal number of organizations surveyed by VDC in 2003 selected XML or Foundation Fieldbus as their preferred protocol for wired applications. Each protocol was favored by 16 percent of the companies surveyed. PROFInet was favored by 14 percent. WAP...
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