The provincial Peng Cheng Laboratory launched its self-developed technology-sharing platform called Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) yesterday in Xili, Nanshan District.
According to the lab, the platform is the only one of its kind to support the most complete TSN protocol with the highest data exchange capacity. Its single machine data exchange capacity of up to 40Gbps ensures there is no delay in data synchronization transmission.
Liu Yunjie, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, whose team participated in the development of the platform, said the team and the cooperative enterprises spent less than a year on the project.
“We worked very hard on it and the workers from the enterprises averaged more than 90 hours a month working under big pressure to develop it. It makes me understand the so-called ‘Shenzhen Speed.’ The complete industrial chain of the city makes it possible,” said Liu.
“The technology is important for modern industry. Many countries and big companies are working on it. Because its development requires money, talent and time, small enterprises have been excluded, which is bad for their development. So we proposed to build the open platform for everyone. As 5G has been put into use, the need for the technology is urgent. It will facilitate the future development of Industrial Internet of Things and allow industries, such as intelligent driving, to enter the fast lane.”
The platform was unveiled at the 2nd International Conference of Future Network Technology and Engineering.
TSN is a set of standards under development by the Time-Sensitive Networking task group of the IEEE 802.1 working group. The TSN task group was formed in November 2012. The standards define mechanisms for the time-sensitive transmission of data over Deterministic Ethernet networks.
The majority of projects define extensions to the IEEE 802.1Q - Bridges and Bridged Networks, which describes virtual LANs and network switches. These extensions address the issues of very low transmission latency and high availability.