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Building Technologies Basic documentation: Communication via the KNX bus CE1P3127en
HVAC Products KNX (Konnex) and Synco 30.08.2007
1.3 The KNX network
1.3.1 Full-scale KNX network
A full Konnex network is structured on three levels. It consists of:
• Area line 0 Æ Area 0 (backbone line)
• Main lines 1...15 Æ Areas 1…15
• Lines 1.1...15.15
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The arrangement of the bus devices in the 3-level KNX network structure, with the
Synco bus devices factory set with Area/Line address 0.2 corresponds to the gray
shaded area in the illustration above.
KNX network,
three-level structure
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