The objective of this book is to outline the best practice in designing, installing, commissioning and troubleshooting industrial data communications systems....

TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is the suite of communications protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet. TCP/IP uses several protocols, the two main ones being TCP and IP. TCP/IP is built into the UNIX operating system andis used by the Internet, making it the de facto standard for transmitting data over networks....