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News Release from: Sixnet | Subject: IPm DNP3 slave
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Team on 28 September 2004
Slave controller is fully DNP compliant
Sixnet has integrated a new addon slave option to its line of Linux-based IPm controllers and RTUs.
Sixnet has integrated a new addon option to its line of Linux-based IPm controllers and RTUs The new DNP v3.00 (DNP3) driver implements a slave device function
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 25 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Product Manager, Mike O'Connor states: "DNP3 has become one of the industry standards in the electric utility and water treatment industries for applications in which time stamped event data is required".
He continues: "This implementation is fully compliant with DNP V3.00 Subset Definition Level 2, contains many Subset Level 3 features and some functions beyond Subset Level 3".
"The slave driver has been designed to enable data exchange with all types of I/O in the IPm units".
"It also maintains the optimum advantage of IPm features while providing full compliance with DNP standards".
The Sixnet IPm DNP3 slave is highly configurable.
It includes a Windows configuration utility which integrates into the Sixnet I/O toolkit.
This tool covers event generation, run time DNP protocol behaviour at all DNP protocol layers, and I/O to DNP object mapping for any I/O type.
Other capabilities allow it to communicate over a serial port with collision avoidances or over LAN/WAN.
It is capable of Link Layer confirmations and retries, time synchronisation and unsolicited message generation for event reporting.
The DNP3 addon option comes with complete documentation, including a step-by-step tutorial, a comprehensive on-line help system, context-sensitive tool tips, and a complete user manual with DNP Device Profile Document.
There are several models of Linux-IPm Controllers and RTUs available from Sixnet, all backed by a 20-year support and service promise.
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