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