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Allen-Bradley Unsolicited Ethernet

The Allen-Bradley Server Ethernet driver for Kepware Server provides data exchange between OPC/DDE clients and Allen-Bradley PLC-2 compliant PLCs via Ethernet.

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  • Enterprise Connectivity

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  • Project Connectivity

    Advanced Manufacturing Suite

    Kepware’s Advanced Manufacturing Suite bundles every driver with tag linking and database logging unlocked data from any device for automation projects.

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  • Device Connectivity

    Allen-Bradley Suite

    The Kepware Allen-Bradley Suite connects PLC and motion controllers to client applications, including HMI, SCADA, historian, MES, and more.

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Overview

Allen-Bradley Unsolicited Ethernet Product Overview

The Allen-Bradley Server Ethernet device driver provides data exchange between OPC/DDE clients and Allen-Bradley PLC-2 compliant PLCs via Ethernet. The driver allows an OPC client application to appear as 1 to 256 Allen-Bradley devices on the network. The server-client mode allows the server to receive data by exception from an Allen-Bradley server. Kepware automatically optimizes data acquisition based on client demand. Data integrity is ensured with our extensive error handling.

Performance

  • Acts as a single simulated Allen-Bradley PLC-2
  • Up to 256 devices may connect to the simulated PLC-2 at any time
  • Sockets used by incoming connections are aged according to activity level
  • All major memory and data types supported

Protocols

  • Allen-Bradley Ethernet

Supported Devices

  • Allen-Bradley PLCs programmed to send PLC-2 type commands.

Available Languages

  • English
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Simplified Chinese

Application Support

  • DDE Format CF_Text and AdvancedDDE
  • NIO Interface for iFIX
  • OPC .NET Service (OPC .NET) Version 1.00
  • OPC Alarms and Events (OPC AE) Version 1.10
  • OPC Data Access (OPC DA) Versions 1.0a, 2.0, 2.05a, and 3.0
  • OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) Clients
  • SuiteLink and FastDDE for Wonderware

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Release Notes

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Additional Tech Info

Supported Device Details

Devices need not be PLC-2s. Consult your hardware programming manual.

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