Data Highway Plus is a networking system made by the Allen-Bradley Company (now called Rockwell Automation). It is a networking protocol suite for manufacturing automation. It is normal in networking innovation to express protocols in layers of capacities. The Data Highway Plus suite contains three layers. These are the physical layer, the data join layer and the application layer.
The Data Highway Plus protocol give directions to a PLC (programmable logic controller) that controls a bit of modern apparatus. The protocol indicates a message packet format to convey these commands. The message header contains a byte each to clarify the source of the message, the destination of the message and the command to be executed. There is additionally, alternatively, a capacity byte. The answer to this command will answer in a packet headed by source, destination and summon bytes, trailed by maybe a couple bytes for status codes. Summons and reactions are coordinated together by a TNS (“transaction”) code. The reaction to a summon will contain the TNS of the charge to which it is an answer. Both the summon message and the reaction message can alternatively contain a data segment.