D Glossary
A-301
S7-CPs for Industrial Ethernet Configuring and Commissioning
Release 01/2007
C79000-G8976-C182-07
Transmission rate
According to DIN 44302, this is the number of binary decisions transmitted per
time unit. The unit is bps. he set or selected transmission rate depends on
various conditions, for example the distance across the network.
Watchdog
Mechanism for monitoring operability.
D.2 Industrial Ethernet
Base address
Logical address of a module in S7 systems.
For PROFIBUS
The PROFIBUS base address is the address starting at which all addresses
that are calculated automatically in the project are assigned.
For Industrial Ethernet
The base MAC address is the address starting at which all addresses that are
calculated automatically in the project are assigned.
Ind. Ethernet station
A station is identified by a -> MAC address in -> Industrial Ethernet.