The Real-Time CORBA and minimumCORBA specifications are important steps towards defining standard-based middleware which can satisfy real-time requirements in an embedded system. These real-time middlewares must be based on a real-time operating system (RTOS) and a real-time network. This article presents a new timetriggered ethernet protocol that has been implemented under RTLinux. Furthermore it describes a Real-Time CORBA implementation called ROFES, which is based on this new real-time network.