The Industrial Internet ConsortiumĀ (IIC) has announce that its plugfest series of the Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) Testbed has been a success and that it will expand the TSN Testbed to Europe. At the March 2017 IIC Member Meeting, in Reston, Virginia, the TSN Testbed received top ranking in the Testbed Showcase, where IIC testbed leaders were judged by their peers on their testbeds' strategic value.
Plugfests are face-to-face events where participants gather to test the interoperability of their enhanced products and technology. The fifthĀ plugfest took placeĀ February 27- March 1Ā in Austin, Texas at theĀ
NI Industrial IoT LabĀ where it tested things such as synchronizing devices to a common, precise sense of time delivered over the network; establishing TSN flows between various vendors; communicating input/output traffic via TSN flows; and demonstrating TSNās ability to protect critical flows from high-bandwidth traffic.
The most recent plugfest took placeĀ March 16-17Ā near Frankfurt, Germany. The testbed in Europe, established at Bosch Rexroth development siteĀ for IoT related control and communication solutions in Erbach, shall enable more companies to participate in the plugfests and join the testbed. Results from this latest plugfest will be demonstrated at both the IIC booth and the OPC UA booth at Hannover Messe (HMI) 2017. Some testbed participants will also have TSN displays in their respective booths at HMI.
TSN Testbed participants include IIC members Analog Devices, Belden/Hirschmann, Bosch Rexroth, B&R Industrial Automation, Cisco, Hilscher, KUKA, National Instruments, Renesas Electronics, Schneider Electric, SICK AG, TTTech and Xilinx. Other participants include Calnex, Ixia, ISW ā Stuttgart University and Phoenix Contact.
