October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
9h 56m
English
Introduced in 1979, Modbus has been the de facto standard ever since. Modbus is an application layer messaging protocol. Placed at level 7 of the OSI model, it provides client/server communication between devices connected via different types of communication buses or communication media. Modbus is the most widely used ICS protocol, mainly because it's a proven and reliable protocol, simple to implement, and open to use without any royalties:

On the left-hand side in the preceding figure, we see Modbus communicating over serial (RS-232 or RS-485). The same application layer protocol is used for communicating over Ethernet, ...
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