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Technology Stocks : Echelon Corporation (ELON) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ahhaha who wrote (2277)	6/6/2000 5:12:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3076

ELON's lonworks at the device level not the machine man interface. If you feel they are competing then you can hang you hat on the section highlighted in bold below. <<The e-Factory Infrastructure GE Cisco Industrial Networks will use the Ethernet open standard network infrastructure to bridge the information gap between the factory floor and the rest of the enterprise. Traditionally, Ethernet has been used to network offices, while plant floor information has been exchanged over proprietary networks. Although fast and reliable when used for plant floor communication, proprietary networks often cannot communicate with office networks. The many benefits that Ethernet has brought to office networks -- including low installation and maintenance costs as well as seamless integration with the Internet -- will now be available to the factory without compromising manufacturing productivity. "The benefits of communicating real-time plant floor data over Ethernet and uniting it with the office over one enterprise-wide backbone are enormous," said Jeff Pompeo, president and CEO of GE Cisco Industrial Networks. "Users have rapid access to data and can better exploit applications such as ERP (enterprise resource planning), remote monitoring and VMI (vendor managed inventory) via a standard Internet browser, an easy-to-use tool that is familiar to nearly everyone. Additionally, machining and manufacturing cells -- each with multiple control devices -- can be connected via one open infrastructure rather than several islands of proprietary networks -- which allows factory floor communication and improves resource management. "Installing, maintaining, and managing one type of network throughout the enterprise is also substantially less expensive than supporting several different networks," Pompeo added. "As a result, ROI is realized more quickly. The enterprise-wide Ethernet network helps make companies more productive by virtually eliminating network downtime, bottlenecks and crashes for guaranteed data availability.">> If they deal was say with Honeywell it would worry me more. Greg