Method for the prioritized, high-performance, regular transmission of a set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) in an industrial network (NB, NR) consisting of switching nodes (B0, B1, B2, B3,... Bn), wherein the set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm), on the way from a data transmitter (1,... m) to a data receiver, is transmitted from a first switching node (B0, B1, B2, B3) to a second switching node (B1, B2, B3, Bn), and a transmission time window of the transmission bandwidth is exclusively reserved for transmitting the set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) from the first switching node to the second switching node for all transmitting switching nodes (B0, B1, B2, B3) in the network (NB, NR), and the start of the transmission time window is time-synchronized for all transmitting switching nodes (B0, B1, B2, B3) in the network (NB, NR), and prior to the start of the transmission, a system design of the industrial network (NB, NR) must be known and planned, wherein the transmission time window is reserved taking into account the number of switching nodes (B0, B1, B2, B3) to be passed through that results from the network topology, with the result that the transmission of a burst corresponding to the set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) and with an associated burst length is always guaranteed within the transmission time window, wherein the transmission time window reserved for transmitting the set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) is greater than a total transmission time of the data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) that is composed of the burst length and a forwarding delay (FDxn), wherein the forwarding delay (FDxn) is the time delay between the first injection of the burst at the first switching node and the first injection of the burst at the last switching node (Bn) to be passed through. the set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm), on the way from a data transmitter (1,... m) to a data receiver, is transmitted from a first switching node (B0, B1, B2, B3) to a second switching node (B1, B2, B3, Bn), and a transmission time window of the transmission bandwidth is exclusively reserved for transmitting the set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) from the first switching node to the second switching node for all transmitting switching nodes (B0, B1, B2, B3) in the network (NB, NR), and the start of the transmission time window is time-synchronized for all transmitting switching nodes (B0, B1, B2, B3) in the network (NB, NR), and prior to the start of the transmission, a system design of the industrial network (NB, NR) must be known and planned, wherein the transmission time window is reserved taking into account the number of switching nodes (B0, B1, B2, B3) to be passed through that results from the network topology, with the result that the transmission of a burst corresponding to the set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) and with an associated burst length is always guaranteed within the transmission time window, wherein the transmission time window reserved for transmitting the set of data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) is greater than a total transmission time of the data packets (F1, F2,... Fm) that is composed of the burst length and a forwarding delay (FDxn), wherein the forwarding delay (FDxn) is the time delay between the first injection of the burst at the first switching node and the first injection of the burst at the last switching node (Bn) to be passed through.