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9 Industry 4.0 and Beyond | ADI is far from easy. It requires a multilayer approach to make it inherent throughout the system—within edge devices, controllers, gateways, and further up the stack. ADI's Chronous portfolio offers security at each node point within the system while minimizing trade-offs in power, performance, and latency. The Roadmap to Deployment Although Industrial Ethernet has seen considerable growth in recent years, fieldbuses and other legacy networking technologies are still being deployed. We all agree on the advantages brought by a converged network based on Industrial Ethernet. These include a simplified network architecture, cost reduction through the removal of gateways, the elimination of hardwired connections, improved system optimization, increased up-time, etc. The advent of new standards and their imminent ratification is the catalyst needed to accelerate this awaited transition. This transition is firmly driven by the need for higher performance connectivity networks with increased integration between OT and IT systems. TSN is the vehicle to deliver a converged network and, when married with 10BASE-T1L, will realize seamless edge-to-cloud connectivity. The migration will not happen overnight, but the potential benefits are so compelling that it is likely adoption will outpace standard industrial norms. At the heart of the Industry 4.0 vision is the ability to automate processes using connected devices with the capacity to collect, send, and receive information. ADI Chronous unlocks the data and insights previously unobtainable from many edge node devices, thereby awakening new realms of possibilities for data analysis and operation insight. Industrial Ethernet connectivity will awaken this reality through the seamless transfer of current and future data streams across the automation network to the cloud. We cannot access some data islands of information and insight today. But as Industrial Ethernet deployment becomes the norm, the challenge for Industry 4.0 will move to security and what to do with all this data to maximize our business value. The smart choice is to partner with a trusted ally that has serviced the industrial market for many decades. Analog Devices has the deep domain expertise, technology, and solutions needed to accelerate the transition to the smart factory of tomorrow. Figure 7: Cybersecurity for trusted data. (Source: Analog Devices, Inc.) 7