31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Industrial Ethernet architectures to provide QoS and add a convergent prospect for ‘extended-home’ High Definition Multimedia services distribution Subject:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Organization Profile Issues facing the Digital Home The alternative calle Industrial Ethernet A wide bouquet where user can choose The need for a suitable playground Description of Digital Innovation Competitive Advantages Conclusions Agenda:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends  Created in 1974, in the heart of MCC (Mondragón Corporación Cooperativa).  MCC is the 6 th largest Spanish Corporation with more than employees.  Fouder member of the IK4 alliance.  Technology scanning.  Assimilation and generation of knowledge.  Transfer of state-of-the-art technology to companies, mainly small and medium- sized enterprises (SME). Organization profile: IKERLAN

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends The goal of the Communications Knowledge Area is customised integration of communications elements in final products. Staff: 50 engineers in Communications Department (with CEIT- Alliance) 250 ~Ikerlan ~ IK ~ MCC Organization profile: IKERLAN

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Organization Profile Issues facing the Digital Home The alternative calle Industrial Ethernet A wide bouquet where user can choose The need for a suitable playground Description of Digital Innovation Competitive Advantages Conclusions Agenda:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends -AM TV (analogue terrestrial television): VHF, UHF 8 MHz per analogue TV channel. + TDT (COFDM-TV) “Triple Play” + Ambient Intelligence - AM, OM, FM radio -FM TV (analogue satellite television) Became popular in the 90’s. -DVB-C (64-QAM-TV) Fibre+HFC. Owner of the network until the PAU is reached. -XDSL (imagenio, ADSL line), DVB-IP - DVB-S (QPSK-TV) Issues facing the Digital Home

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Residential Gateway TR-69 and OSGi enabled Access Network Wi-Fi PC STB Ethernet Access Point IEEE 1394 SAT tuner PVR DV Cam White goods Home automation bus (PLC…) Sensors and metering Issues facing the Digital Home

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Use of Industrial buses to redistribute high constraints data traffic: MULTIMEDIA Ethernet + QoS = INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET HDTVAmbient IntelligenceQoSHome Backbone Issues facing the Digital Home

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Ethernet IEEE-1394 PLC Industrial Ethernet A convergent architecture for the home and extended-home backbone, with the union of different backbone technologies over different physical media. A new actor appears to become the main spine of the ubiquitous home backbone, The industrial Ethernet or Real-Time Ethernet, in order to redistribute new High Definition services and introduce an innovative time-constraints compliant architecture. Response to the Maturation of HDTV and irruption of Ambient Intelligence services. Issues facing the Digital Home UWB IP

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Organization Profile Issues facing the Digital Home The alternative calle Industrial Ethernet A wide bouquet where user can choose The need for a suitable playground Description of Digital Innovation Competitive Advantages Conclusions Agenda:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Multimedia content And Services, Broadcaster Telecom Operator Service Provider Lightning Devices Audio/Video Equipment Security Devices Home Appliances Controllers (PDA, TV, PC) Telephony Services Industrial Ethernet (Real-Time Ethernet) Backbone Multimedia inputs Management The alternative called Industrial Ethernet

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Organization Profile Issues facing the Digital Home The alternative calle Industrial Ethernet A wide bouquet where user can choose The need for a suitable playground Description of Digital Innovation Competitive Advantages Conclusions Agenda:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends During all the Project Importance of actualizing the State of the Art INDUSTRIAL PROFILES Evolution 14 candidates of INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET A wide bouquet where user can choose Evolution of Fieldbus Technology…

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends How much they differ from standard Ethernet (802.3)? A wide bouquet where user can choose

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends How to obtain a deterministic time: TIME-SLOT MECHANISM Super-imposes the Time-Slot to the CSMA/CD

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Differentiates isochronous traffic from asinchronous one. Special switches are used to connect devices (Vs standard hubs used by EPL) 100 Mbps Special ASIC or FPGA TIME-SLOT MECHANISM How to obtain a deterministic time:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends PHY and message -> ETHERNET Existing mechanisms -> SERCOS Neither Switches nor Hubs Special ASIC or FPGA How to obtain a deterministic time: TIME-SLOT MECHANISM

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends ETHERNET frame structure, but a very different operative mode: Each cycle time, only one frame travels over the bus. Special ASIC or FPGA for the slaves. HW Processing -> “On The Fly” How to obtain a deterministic time:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Doesn’t work with cyclic times, but it takes into account a timing system. UDP + QoS + IEEE faster, + simple than TCP + priority over real time SWITCHES Synchronization of high accuracy How to obtain a deterministic time:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Tendency: Slaves made with ASIC or FPGA. Better timing characteristics. A wide bouquet where user can choose

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Organization Profile Issues facing the Digital Home The alternative calle Industrial Ethernet A wide bouquet where user can choose The need for a suitable playground Description of Digital Innovation Competitive Advantages Conclusions Agenda:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends A way to provide an isochronous bus technology with low delay and jitter rates provided.  High efficiency  Low jitter  Low cost FPGA.  Hardware processing: On-The-Fly The need for a suitable playground

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends The need for a suitable playground  Standard Ethernet Frame.  Registered Ethertype (IEEE): 0x88a4  Implemented also over UDP

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Organization Profile Issues facing the Digital Home The alternative calle Industrial Ethernet A wide bouquet where user can choose The need for a suitable playground Description of Digital Innovation Competitive Advantages Conclusions Agenda:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends NETWORK MONITORING TOOL Created for this demonstration Network statistics -> RTP sessions Perturbing traffic generator. DEVELOPED BY THE POLICIES OF QUALITY OF IKERLAN PRAGMA Description of Digital Innovation

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Description of Digital Innovation “Testing scenario”

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends JITTER ETHERNET A: NeMo perturbing B: Bit rate C: Rx PC’s characteristics Description of Digital Innovation

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends A: NeMo perturbing B: cycle time C: CPU Limit % Description of Digital Innovation JITTER ETHERCAT

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends  EtherCAT Vs Ethernet  Jitter EtherCAT < 100 us  Imperceptible perturbation on EtherCAT  Error 5-10% Description of Digital Innovation

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Description of Digital Innovation  Low Delay.  Low Jitter.  No disturbance due to the inserted perturbing traffic.  On-The-Fly frame processing.  IEEE-1588 synchronization.  Specific ASIC or FPGA.

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Organization Profile Issues facing the Digital Home The alternative calle Industrial Ethernet A wide bouquet where user can choose The need for a suitable playground Description of Digital Innovation Competitive Advantages Conclusions Agenda:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Competitive Advantages Proposed communications infrastructure provides an important added value from both technological and social point of view: Technological Opportunities: Ethernet is well-known as the most succesfull communications technology ever, and associated HW and wiring has reached mass market price. New Medium Access Mechanisms added making it useless for the audiovisual real-time distribution. Social Impact: Evolution towards Ambient Intelligent services and incoming High Definition leaded technological wave. An increasing social demand for implementing an extended- home backbone in a low cost that will allow the easy technological adoption from end user.

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Organization Profile Issues facing the Digital Home The alternative calle Industrial Ethernet A wide bouquet where user can choose The need for a suitable playground Description of Digital Innovation Competitive Advantages Conclusions Agenda:

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends Convergence between legacy services’ needs and low jitter requiring applications, thanks to the embedded Ethernet standard nature of EtherCAT. It has been demostrated the validity of the implementation of segments of the home backbone based on Industrial Ethernet (EtherCAT). Scientifical contribution’s added value has been introduced with the innovative comparison between standard Ethernet and EtherCAT buses based on specific methodologies. Conclusions

31/Aug/2007 Session VI: Network Technology Trends IKERLAN Technological Research Centre (IK4 Research Alliance) Pº J.M. Arizmendiarrieta, Arrasate – Mondragón (Gipuzkoa) Tel.: int (+34) Fax: int (+34) Josu Bilbao Ugalde Telecommunication Engineer Communications Knowledge Area, IKERLAN ; ; Personal Contact details: