Industrial Automation: Sensors, Programmable Logic Controllers, and Fieldbuses
A technical engineering guide to industrial control: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), discrete sensors, ladder logic execution, and OT protocols.
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A technical engineering guide to industrial control: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), discrete sensors, ladder logic execution, and OT protocols.
A masterclass in interpreting traceroute diagnostics: identifying asymmetric routing, MPLS tunnels, ICMP rate-limiting, and peering bottlenecks.
A technical breakdown of internet speed test mechanics: single vs multi-stream TCP tests, bufferbloat effects, server distance, and RFC 6349.
A hands-on guide to essential network engineering CLI tools: iPerf3 bandwidth benchmarking, MTR path profiling, tcpdump packet analysis, and cURL metrics.
A technical engineering comparison of traditional industrial robots and collaborative robots (cobots): kinematics, safety sensors, payload, and speed.
A guide to broadband economics and network capacity: statistical multiplexing, contention ratios, Committed Information Rates, and SLAs.
A guide for ISPs navigating global IPv4 depletion: Carrier-Grade NAT (RFC 6598), dual-stack rollout, and 464XLAT transition mechanisms.
A technical breakdown of how Internet Service Providers route global traffic through transit upstreams, BGP-4, and Internet Exchange Points.
A guide to public hotspot architecture: HTTP interception, RFC 8908/8910 captive-portal API identification, and RADIUS authentication.