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Various Industrial Ethernet switching components are available from SIMATIC NET: active network components that can be used together with SIMATIC, as stand alone devices or as commuications processors with integrated switches for PCs or SIMATIC. The new brochure in German "Industrial Ethernet Switching" gives information about the details. The English version will be available soon.

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The "SPS/IPC/DRIVES" fair for electrical automation technology will take place from 25-27.11.2008 in Nuremberg (Germany).

Now the brochure "Industrial Communication" is also available in French, Italian and Spanish.

The Catalog "IKPI 2009" is now available in English. It describes the integrated range of Siemens solutions for the following standardized networking systems which are used worldwide:

• PROFINET/Industrial Ethernet
• Industrial Wireless Communication
• PROFIBUS
• AS-Interface

At the Brau Beviale 2008 SIMATIC NET will be presenting innovative focus products from the wide range of industrial communication.

To operate electrolyzer crane systems more efficiently, the company Kuenz GmbH makes use of IWLAN products from SIMATIC NET. A description of the solution is also available in the form of a flyer for reference.

Teleservice of wind energy plants with MD 740-1 and SCALANCE S612 implemented by Flender Service International is the topic of the new reference from SIMATIC NET.

The new Reference flyer with the title "Increased productivity and safety: fast and safe loading of steel coils" presents the fully-automated crane contol with PROFINET and Industrial WLAN for fast and fail-safe communications at ArcelorMittal Gent.

The updated technical brochure "Network solutions for PROFIBUS according to IEC 61158 and EN 50170" gives an overview over the network components and communication processors for different host systems which are available for building a PROFIBUS network.

The "Industrial Wireless Communication" brochure has been updated and is available online or in printed version.