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Infographic: What Factors Limit Your Use of Industrial Ethernet?

Nov. 6, 2013
28% of Survey Respondents Say Legacy Equipment Limits Their Use of Ethernet

An electronic survey of Industrial Networking readers was conducted in August, 2013, in order to identify usage and application trends of Industrial Ethernet among the magazine's readership .

Factors most often mentioned as limiting usage of Industrial Ethernet included legacy equipment (28%), cost (26%), security fears (26%), lack of deterministic behavior (22%), experience (21%), maintenance (16%), and training (15%).

Read all results from the survey.

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