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Appendix B • Vission 20/20 Application Procedures

ETHERNET NETWORK TOPOLOGY

The conﬁ guration of the plant Ethernet network might

be dictated by the plant IT department. One com-

mon conﬁ guration is the star type topology, where a

master device will connect to a switch, and all devices

Figure B-19. Ethernet Network Topology

participating on the network (Vission 20/20 panels) will

also be connected to the switch. All Vission 20/20 pan-

els would have unique static IP addresses and the master

would communicate to each.