When Ethernet connectivity is added to embedded designs, a wide range of remote communication features become available to end users. For example, customers can now remotely monitor embedded systems using a web browser or receive emails triggered by incident alerts or low product inventory. The benefits of remote management via the Internet can be significant saving considerable time and costs associated with checking system status, updating firmware, providing maintenance, pulling logs, and more. Enabling such benefits are Microchip’s low cost Ethernet solutions, including the 10Base-T PIC18F97J60 PIC® Microcontroller family, which is IEEE 802.3 compliant and fully compatible with 10/100/1000 Base-T networks.