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Optimizing Performance
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5.2 Control Application Design
Overview
In a control system, control and automation are achieved by processing and
delivering various application service messages.
Understanding messages, allocating network bandwidth among messages, and
determining the time required for a message to traverse the network are all major
performance considerations of your control application design.
What's in this Section?
This section contains the following topics:
Topic Page
Message Types 92
Message Connection Types 94
TCP and CIP Connections 96
Message Priority 97
Messaging Performance 98
Message Frequency 99
Allocating Network Bandwidth 101
Estimating Message Traverse and Response Times 103