Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN)

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Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a set of Ethernet sub-standards defined in the ieee IEEE 802.1 TSN Task Group. TSN focuses on creating a convergence between information technology (IT) and industrial operational technology (OT) by extending and adapting existing Ethernet standards.

TSN technology aims to standardize features on OSI-Layer 2 in order that different protocols can share the same infrastructure. The challenge lies in configuring critical and non-critical data traffic so that neither real-time characteristics nor performance is impaired.

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