Description
3.2 Network topologies
SCALANCE X-400
22 Operating Instructions, 06/2015, C79000-G8976-C186-12
Figure 3-5 Optical ring with redundancy manager
Options of media redundancy
There are various options available to increase the network availability of an Industrial
Ethernet network with optical or electrical linear bus topologies:
● Mesh networks
● Parallel connection of transmission paths
● Closing a linear bus topology to form a ring topology