NetDecoder
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Industrial Communication Analyzer
Clarity from Complexity
When something goes wrong with your industrial network, spending time and resources
trying to diagnose and resolve the problem is very costly.
With NetDecoder, you can learn about impending problems before they
occur. It’s an intuitive, passive network monitor and trouble-
shooting tool that offers high level views of your network activity
and helps you understand your communications traffic.
In an environment that demands deterministic control and information
exchange, having the right tool to help you understand your network activity is
absolutely critical. And that is just what NetDecoder delivers for a broad range of serial,
Ethernet and industrial protocols and buses.
Use the same tool Rockwell
Automation Network Services
engineers use globally.
Product Highlights:
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PC-based Industrial Communications
analyzer
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Supports serial, Ethernet & industrial buses
NetDecoder
NetDecoder is a must for
NetDecoder is a passive and easy-to-use network
• SCADA Engineers
monitor that helps less-skilled troubleshooters
• System Integrators
understand what is happening on their
• Network Engineers
communications networks. The Dashboard View,
• Maintenance Engineers
Network View Network View, Statistics Display and
• Field Service Personnel
Frame Display are intuitive, easy to read, and quickly
provide a wealth of information about the network.
Although NetDecoder is simple to work with, it does
provide a level of sophisticated and detailed information demanded by today’s network
specialist.
Serial
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DF1/PCCC
Modbus RTU
Modbus ASCII
DNP3
BACNet
IEC-60870-5-102
CC-Link
• IEC 60870-5-101
• IEC 60870-5-103
• BSAP Bristol Babcock
• ABB COMLI
• Emerson ROC
• Saia-Burgess S-Bus
NetDecoder’s Node Statistics
Network View enables you to see statistics on specific nodes including communcations
traffic details and node information for active nodes on the monitored side of the switch.
Individual Active Node Information
Ethernet
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Modbus/TCP
• IEC 60870-5-104
ProfiNet
• PROFINET
DNP3
• CC-Link IE
EtherNet/IP (includes CIP and PCCC)
Allen-Bradley CSP/PCCC
• Packets Transmitted and Received
• Bytes Transmitted and Received
• DNS Names
• Nodes In and Out
• Utilization Information
• Broadcast Information
• IP Address and MAC Address
• Named MAC Address
• NetBios Name
• Assigned User Friendly Names for Each Node
Industrial
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DeviceNet
• CAN 2.0 A
ControlNet
Allen-Bradley DH-485
Allen-Bradley Data Highway Plus
Serial Protocols
Ethernet Protocols
Allen-Bradley / Rockwell
Industrial Bus Protocols
Benefits
Reduce downtime and increase uptime
Improve network performance
Improve network security
Improve network maintenance
Perform faster and more efficient network
installations
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Rapidly develop industrial control and
SCADA network products
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Perform better in Conformance testing of
your network products
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NetDecoder
™
Industrial Communication Analyzer
Key Features
• Captures, decodes, timestamps, filters and displays data, and detects protocol errors (indicated
in red) simultaneously, all live and in real-time.
• Data is also displayed in binary, octal, hex, and ASCII.
• Familiar tree (Explorer style) protocol decode display with single-click protocol filtering.
• Session notes and annotated bookmarks allow for quick identification of questionable messages.
• Log data to single or multiple files.
Partial User List
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Rockwell Automation
Sunoco Logistics
General Motors
ExxonMobil
Northrup Grumman
Weyerhaeuser
DTE Energy
Cooper Power Systems
Duke Energy
Enbridge
Message Summary
PC System Requirements
• Pentium 1 GHz or faster
• Windows XP (32-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit,
64-bit)
• RAM: 1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended
• 50 MB free hard disk space
• One USB 2.0 Port
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Industrial buses require additional
hardware
See actual
command
and reply
data.
Message Stream
Together with our comprehensive line of USB hardware interfaces, Frontline’s NetDecoder protocol
analyzer monitors and provides detailed timing, data, and messaging information for a wide range
of communications protocols.
For more information, or to
request an evaluation:
fte.com/NetDecoder
The
Network View
displays the nodes
on the network from
the point of view
of the network tap.
Includes byte and
packet statistics.
sales@fte.com / 800.359.8570 US & Canada / +1.434.984.4500 / Fax: 434.984.4505
© Copyright 2012. Frontline Test Equipment, Inc. All rights reserved. NetDecoder, FrameDecoder and the Frontline logo are trademarks,
Debug Communications Faster
is a service mark, and Frontline is a registered trademark of Frontline Test Equipment, Inc.
Data Highway Plus and DH+ are trademarks of Rockwell Automation. Other trademarks and trade names are those of their respective owners.
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