Ethernet board technical data vacon • 524-hour support +358 (0)40 837 1150 • Email: vacon@vacon.com32.3 EthernetEtherNet/IP™ was introduced in 2001 and today is the most developed, proven and completeindustrial Ethernet network solution available for manufacturing automation. EtherNet/IP is amember of a family of networks that implements the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™) at itsupper layers. CIP encompasses a comprehensive suite of messages and services for a variety ofmanufacturing automation applications, including control, safety, synchronization, motion,configuration and information. As a truly media-independent protocol that is supported by hundredsof vendors around the world, CIP provides users with a unified communication architecturethroughout the manufacturing enterprise.Common use-cases of Ethernet – devices are ‘human to machine’ and ‘machine to machine’.Basic features of these two use-cases are presented in the pictures below.1. Human to machine (Graphical User interface, relatively slow communication)Note! NCDrive can be used in NXS and NXP drives via Ethernet. In NXL drives this is notpossible.NCDrive / NCIPConfig interface-Parameter-Slow rate actualValues-Trends-Fault history---Ethernet switch