How to prevent data losses because of cable cuts? ...ring redundancy
Normally the advantage of an IP solution per PDU is that a cable cut will not affect the other PDUs on the bus. This
could happen in a normal daisy chained serial bus topology.
However, Schleifenbauer has made their bus redundant so that a single cable cut will not affect the readout or
control of the PDUs; it will try and get access via the alternative route on the ring. A cable cut is detected by our
firmware and an error message will be submitted to the database. The disadvantage of a serial bus topology is
therefore covered in the Schleifenbauer system.