

The standards as basic rules offer at the same time security as they emerge from a long analysis process under consideration of possible operating situations and also are the indispensable basis for the interoperability of participants in an Ethernet network. Such wide scale adoption is achieved mainly through the establishment of common developed standards with general rules and guidelines for the implementation of Ethernet networks in the automobile. The Open Alliance aims, amongst others, to achieve a wide acceptance of Ethernet networks. The impressive number of more than 200 members demonstrates the confidence that is now set in the use of Ethernet in the automotive sector. It shows, that such a use is possible at first it was the BroadR Reach technology of Broadcom that has considerably contributed to.įrom this common interest, the OPEN Alliance ( One- Pair Ether- Net) Special Interest Group (SIG) was established as a consortium of automobile manufacturers, technology vendors and other partners from the field of the automobile. Nevertheless, one wanted to utilize the advantages of Ethernet for application in the automotive sector: Speed and significantly lower costs convinced to check the possibility of using Ethernet now for automotive applications.

A long time it was considered as impossible to operate Ethernet in the car over unshielded cables.
