Chapter 2 Overview; Figure 1: Genius Dual Bus Combined With Rx3I Hot Standby Redundancy - GE PACSystems RX3i Application Manual

Chapter 2 Overview

Genius Dual Busses are typically deployed in applications such as that diagrammed in Figure 1, where high
availability, in particular ability to withstand faults in the I/O network and in the PLC CPU system, is required.
In the RX3i environment, Genius devices must be interfaced via the Genius Communications Module (GCG001),
which then communicates over PROFINET with the host PLC.
GCG001 supports a number of different Genius head-ends, allowing other types of I/O rack to be attached to
the Genius bus.

Figure 1: Genius Dual Bus Combined with RX3i Hot Standby Redundancy

For details, refer to the PACSystems RX3i Genius Communications Gateway User Manual, GFK-2892C or later.
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