User Manual

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Title: PCS FlexBeamer
®
RF Repeater
System A &O Manual
Doc. No.:
913002500
Rev.: 00
Page: 20 of
80NUMPAGES
1.5. Telemetry and M&C of the Repeater System
1.5.1. Network Architecture and Capacity
The RAC is the master in a star configured network .The Telemetry network enables data
transmission along the following data transmission paths:
1. RAC to each BEAMER
®
unit of any 2 BEAMER
®
FLEXBEAMER® and BAU BEAMER
®
.
2. RAC to PC Locally Connected (or via Wireless Modem as an option)
3. BEAMER
®
to RAC
The maximum capacity of the network is 16 BEAMER
®
modules in a FLEXBEAMER® and
BAU. The actual communication with the RAC and BEAMER
®
FLEXBEAMER® or BAU is
done by the BSM SW Package running on local or remote PC.
1.5.2. Communication Procedure
The communication mode between the RAC, the BEAMER
®
, and the PC is half-duplex. The
communication procedure is described in the following figure:
PC ICU
BEAMER # 1
SEND DATA
COMMANDS
COMMANDS
STATUS
STATUS
SEND DATA
BEAMER # 2 BEAMER# 16
COMMANDS
STATUS
COMMANDS
STATUS
COMMANDS
STATUS
Figure 5: Telemetry Communication procedure