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Strategic Alliances
Rockwell Automation and Cisco Systems®
Integrating Manufacturing and IT for Seamless Connectivity Throughout Your Enterprise
Integrated manufacturing operations and business systems will help you meet your global business demands. That's why Rockwell Automation and Cisco are building joint Reference Architectures and focusing on market education best practices for global manufacturers leveraging EtherNet/IP™ standard networking technologies.
- Reference Architectures are a series of documents including detailed design and implementation guidance and best practices for a converged network architecture, bringing together relevant applications, technologies, and principles enabling Manufacturing and IT organizations to eliminate guesswork and decrease implementation costs while providing security, flexibility and visibility of information to the manufacturing enterprise.
Addressing customer demands for converged, common network technology, the collaboration between Rockwell Automation and Cisco was formed to leverage common open technology with security and reliability, while meeting the varied requirements across functions for an optimized networking solution.
Today, we are developing solutions for customers like you — customers who need secure solutions to help you realize the flexibility and improved efficiencies of a single network. Through the creation of joint Reference Architectures, you can support both your office network environment and your factory floor — giving your plant and IT managers secure, real-time visibility between the production floor and enterprise resource planning.