Most sophisticated Server on the Marked

Erlangen, Karlsruhe May 03, 2010 - Siemens released their new, more sophisticated OPC UA Server. The communication product SIMATIC NET (CD 2010) already had OPC UA capabilities of the Data Access profile, but now was enhanced with Alarms & Conditions. Together with ascolab GmbH this UA Server was developed, it is the first OPC UA Server on the marked that supports not only Data Access but also Alarms & Conditions and Method Calls. In addition the performance was dramatically increased. First measurements showed that this new OPC Server reached locally the same speed than the old classic OPC Server, but remotely OPC UA reached twice the speed of DCOM. The new SIMATIC NET OPC UA Server is available for S7-protocol and PNIO-protocol. The ascolab GmbH assisted the development phase and the system testing of this new server, making it the leading edge of UA technology on the marked.