Are the GPS systems in danger?
GPS systems may encounter problems starting next year. The reason are the satellites whose term of operation is ending. This could lead to unpleasant incidents of aviation services, emergency services, the military and security even for ordinary drivers.
Multicast Traffic – Ethernet
Most industrial producer-consumer (or publisher-subscriber) protocols operating over Ethernet, such as EtherNet/IP and Foundation Fieldbus HSE, are IP multicast-based. The first advantage of IP multicasting is network efficiency; by not repeating the data transmission to the multiple destinations, a significant reduction in network load can occur. The second advantage is that the sending host need not be concerned with knowing every IP address of every destination host listening for the [..]