To enable decentralization of the periphery, intelligence and services over long distances, Schneider Electric proposes the Fipway industrial LAN.
The Fipway network is totally compliant with the FIP standard including access by a bus arbiter.
A Fipway communication channel features three elementary functions:
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the inter-station messaging function which provides routing of messages,
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the telegram transmit/receive function,
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the shared table or common word (%NW) production/consumption function.
The following illustration shows a Fipway network:
