Design Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 501-1,000 employees
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Aug 11, 2025
In general, I use it for scanning IT and OT devices for networks and laying out their topology mapping. The industry I use it for is manufacturing. We specifically don't use it as our network management tool at my company; it's another utility tool that we use in the engineering department to study OT networks. This is specifically for OT, not for IT, and it helps us gather data from OT networks, running Ethernet over IP with SIP communication protocols.
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In general, I use it for scanning IT and OT devices for networks and laying out their topology mapping. The industry I use it for is manufacturing. We specifically don't use it as our network management tool at my company; it's another utility tool that we use in the engineering department to study OT networks. This is specifically for OT, not for IT, and it helps us gather data from OT networks, running Ethernet over IP with SIP communication protocols.
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