Solutions For The Plant Bus; Connecting Pc Stations To The Plant Bus - Siemens Simatic PCS 7 Function Manual

High availability solutions in PCS 7
4.3 Solutions for communication
Note
Using VLAN
You can use a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) to divide a physical bus system into logical
subnets (e.g. terminal bus and plant bus).
You can find additional information on this on the Internet: https://
support.industry.siemens.com at Entry ID: 66807297
cs/ww/en/view/66807297) .
Additional information
● Online help for "SIMATIC NET SOFTNET-IE RNA" software
● Section "How to configure the redundant terminal bus on the basis of the Parallel
Redundancy Protocol (Page 115)"
● You can find information on the available operating systems in the
You can find additional information on this on the Internet http:\\www.siemens.com/pcs7-
documentation (http:\\www.siemens.com/pcs7-documentation):
● Operating Instructions
SCALANCE X204RNA EEC
● Operating instructions
4.3.4

Solutions for the plant bus

4.3.4.1

Connecting PC stations to the plant bus

Network adapters for connection to the high availability plant bus (1 ring)
Suitable network adapters are required in the PC station to establish the connection to the
communication partners in the plant.
Network adapter
1x Standard Ethernet
network adapter
1x Communications pro‐
cessor
(CP 16x3/CP 1628)
2x Communications pro‐
cessor
(CP 16x3/CP 1628)
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SIMATIC NET; Industrial Ethernet; "SCALANCE X204RNA,
SIMATIC NET; PG/PC - Industrial Ethernet; SOFTNET-IE RNA V8.2
Number of con‐ Connection type
nections
8 S7 connection
4 S7 connection, fault-tolerant
(prerequisite: CPU as of firmware ver‐
sion V6.0)
64 S7 connection
32 S7 connection, fault-tolerant
32 S7 connection, fault-tolerant
16 S7 connection, fault-tolerant
(https://support.industry.siemens.com/
PCS 7 Readme file
Redundancy type
-
2-way redundancy
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2-way redundancy
2-way redundancy
4-way redundancy
High Availability Process Control Systems (V9.0)
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