Siemens SIMATIC S7-400H - Page 238

Communication
14.5 Communication via S7 connections
S7-400H
238 System Manual, 03/2012, A5E00267695-11
With this configuration and redundant operation, the fault-tolerant system is connected via
bus1 with the standard system. This applies no matter which CPU is the master CPU.
For linked fault-tolerant and standard systems, the availability of communication cannot be
improved by means of a dual electrical bus system. To be able to use the second bus
system as redundancy, a second S7 connection must be used and managed accordingly in
the user program (see next figure).
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