Updated Version 2 – Getting Started with OPC

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Our Getting Started with OPC Guide has been one of the most popular guides we’ve ever published. Based on reader feedback and questions, we have published a Version 2 of the guide that addresses 5 new topics.  Download this new guide to learn more about OPC in one place, covering 18 commonly asked questions about OPC.

New to this version:

1. If I have multiple brands of devices do I need multiple OPC servers?
2. My OPC Server doesn’t support OPC UA yet but my OPC client does, what do I do?
3. I need to share data between a control system and metering system, or between 2 control systems – how do I do it with OPC?
4. Where should my OPC servers be placed in my network security model
5. I need redundancy in my OPC system, how do I do that?

Also covered, in case you need to revisit questions from the original version:

1. What does the OPC acronym stand for?
2. What's the difference between an OPC client and OPC server?
3. Why do I need OPC servers if my control hardware vendor says they support OPC?
4. Do OPC servers have to run on server-class computers and operating systems?
5. How can 2 OPC servers talk to each other?
6. How can 2 OPC clients talk to each other?
7. Why are there so many OPC standards? (DA, A&E, HDA, UA)
8. What's OPC A&E?
9. What's OPC HDA?
10. Why OPC UA?
11. Can OPC UA talk to OPC DA and vice versa?
12. Can OPC DA 2 and DA 3 clients and servers talk to each other?
13. What are OPC data quality and timestamps all about?

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