Profinet is the leading open industrial Ethernet protocol standard in Europe for all areas of industrial automation technology. This type of communication system enables data to be exchanged in real-time between controller devices and field devices using industrial Ethernet. Profinet is the successor to PROFIBUS®, a Fieldbus protocol standard which is standardised by the PROFIBUS & PROFINET International (PI) user organisation. LAPP is playing an active role in further developing Profinet. The profinet standard-compliant copper cables and components from Lapp etherline range have the inscription “PN” or “PNA”, “PNB” or “PNC”, which indicates at a glance that they are suitable for Profinet applications and shows their type specification . Depending on the type of application concerned, different types of cables are used for Profinet cabling: either cables with 4 cores enabling 100 Mbit/s, or cables with 8 cores enabling Gigabit-level performance.
