Open, neutral, pre-competitive, ministerial financed testbed for the validation of extensions to the IEEE 802.1 standard family for time-sensitive networking (TSN) based on SME use cases including the IEC/IEEE 60802 activities. The extensions make it possible to run heterogeneous real-time applications in a single TSN network. Among the 40 partners, there are 14 SME partners. Liaison contracts with the IEEE 802.1 Working Group and OPC Foundation exist.
The TSN testbed is conceived as a continuous plugfest which always starts with SME requirements and use cases. These use cases provide the basis for the architecture, electrics and mechanics used and are reflected in the demonstrator. Plugfest means that all 40 testbed partners (14 SME) involved continuously try out their (pre-)products with one another. The Federal Ministry Industrie 4.0 Competence Center in Augsburg hosts the testbed and provides a factory building and all industrial technical equipment to implement the use cases.
The IEEE 802.1 standards form the basis of the testbed. TSN is validated as deterministic, real-time Ethernet communication. The testbed also deliberately works with standard templates, so as to be able to validate the different use cases against the IEEE standards and standard projects. These are used to define the technology, the architecture and the network. The key technologies concerned are switches and end-devices, time synchronization, decentralized network configuration, the forwarding of real-time data with bounded latency and the setting up of time-critical data streams. Robots and control components from different manufacturers are networked. There are several "plufests" happening per year. The testbed works closely together with the IIC and Fraunhofer FOKUS TSN testbeds.
Participate actively in our Live-Event on 15.4.2021 from 11-12: https://www.hannovermesse.de/veranstaltung/global-cross-vendor-tsn-testbed-applicable-for-heterogenous-application/pan/98751 .
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