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Modbus was originally developed by Modicon and today, it is managed by the Modbus-IDA User Organization. Modbus is an

open Master/Slave application protocol, that can be used on several different physical Layers. Modbus is an application-laye

mes saging protocol, positioned at level 7 of the OSI model. It provides client/server communication between devices

connected on different types of buses or networks. Modbus-TCP means that the Modbus protocol is used on top of Ethernet-

TCP/IP. Modbus-TCP is an open Industrial Ethernet network which has been specified by the Modbus-IDA User Organization

in co-operation with the Internet Engeneering Task Force (IETF) as an RFC Internet standard. Modbus devices are certified

by the Modbus-IDA User Organization for interoperability and conformance to the Modbus specification.

Disparaged by critics but highly valued by those who have used it, Modbus-TCP isn't really anything new. Rather more, it was

solely necess ary to approve Ethernet-TCP/IP as an addi tional data transm iss ion technology for the Modbus Protocol, which

has been available s ince 1979. The well-proven Modbus services and the object model which has been available s ince the

original Modbus protocol version are unchanged, and have simply been adapted to TCP/IP as the data transm iss ion

protocol. This extends the Modbus family with an additional product range, which now consists of the classical Modbus-RTU

(asynchronous data transmiss ion via RS-232 or RS-485), Modbus-Plus (high speed communication via a Token Passing

Network) and Modbus-TCP (Ethernet-TCP/IP-based client/server communication). All of these versions share the sam e

application protocol, which specifies a universal object module for user data and communication services.

Modbus is a request/reply protocol and offers s ervices s pecified by function codes. Modbus function codes are elements of

Modbus request/reply PDU's. Modbus provides a set of functions to read and write data in the field devices. Modbus

supports bit or word data transfers.

The performance of a Modbus-TCP network is highly dependent on the type and design of the Ethernet network which is

used and on the performance of the processors in the communication interfaces of the respective devices.

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