• Joint Cisco and Rockwell Automation Alliance Program
  • Convergence of industrial automation and IT network technology expertise
  • Development of best practices, recommendations and reference architectures to help customers with their successful design and deployment of a scalable, robust, secure and future-ready plant-wide industrial network infrastructure
Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE)
  • Tested and validated architectures by technical experts at Cisco and Rockwell Automation test labs
  • Deriving documented best practices, guidance and configuration settings to help customers with their successful design and deployment of a scalable, robust, secure and future-ready plant-wide industrial network infrastructure
  • Resulting in customer benefits such as simplified design, quicker deployment and reduced risk in deploying new technology
Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs)
Migrate networks to standard Ethernet and IP networking technologies
Migrating Legacy Control Systems
Segment enterprise and plant networks with IDMZ
Industrial Demilitarized Zone
Central authentication of wired and wireless user access
Identity Services
From small autonomous to plant-wide Unified WLAN
802.11 Wireless LAN
Reuse IPv4 addresses in an integrated plant-wide architecture
Network Address Translation
High availability distribution and core switches, servers and physical infrastructure
Resilient Plant-wide ArchitecturesPanduit