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Talking Time-Sensitive Networking and Industrial Systems

Sept. 23, 2025

Intel's Dave Cavalcanti delves into TSN’s impact on industrial system design.

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This is the first of a series of Inside Electronics podcasts addressing time-sensitive networking (TSN). TSN is a set of IEEE 802.1 standards managed by the TSN Task Group. The participants in this series work for companies that are part of the CC-Link Partner Association (CLPA), whose CC-Link IE TSN is based on the TSN standards.

In this episode, I talk with Dave Cavalcanti, Principal Engineer of the Edge Computing Group at Intel and President of Avnu Alliance. We talk about TSN in general as well as important issues like interoperability provided by this common standard.

It will take a while before everyone migrates from existing fieldbus and specialize in Ethernet standards that provide deterministic network communication, but a common base will greatly improve the interoperability. It will also simplify scaling to large networks.

Check out our TSN TechXchanges for more articles and multimedia content and stay tuned for more on Inside Electronics podcasts on TSN.

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William G. Wong | Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

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Dave Cavalcanti | Principal Engineer, Intel and Avnu Alliance Wireless TSN Workgroup Chair

Dave Cavalcanti is a principal engineer in the Edge Computing Group at Intel Corp., where he develops next-generation wireless connectivity and networking technologies and applications in autonomous, time-sensitive systems. He leads a team developing Wireless Time-Sensitive Networking capabilities over next-generation 802.11 and 5G networks. He is Senior Member of the IEEE and serves as the President of the Wireless TSN working group in the Avnu Alliance.