User's Manual

RLX2 Industrial Hotspot Series
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acknowledgesthedata.Eachremoteradiosendspendingdatatothemasterradiothat
receivesandacknowledgesdatasentfromeachremote.Inthisconfiguration,thereare
multipleremoteradiosreferencedtoasinglemasterradio.
Point-Multipoint (Modbus) Network
AnetworkwithasingleMasterradioandmultipleRemoteradios.Thedevicescabledto
theradioscommunicatethroughtheModbusstandardprotocol.TheMasterradio
sendsdatatoaRemoteradiobasedontheModbusaddressoftheModbusdevice.The
dataisonlysenttothesingleRemotedevicebasedonitsa
ddress.EachRemoteradio
sendsitsdataonlytotheMasterradio.TheMasterandRemoteradiosacknowledge
thatdatawasreceivedcorrectly.
Point-to-Multipoint
Awirelessnetworkinwhichonepoint(theaccesspoint)servesmultipleotherpoints
aroundit.Indoorwirelessnetworksareallpoint‐to‐multipoint,andlong‐rangewireless
networksthatservemultipleclientsusuallyemployeitherasingleomnidirectional
antennaormultiplesectorantennas.
Point-to-Point Network
AnetworkconsistingofasingleMasterradio andasingleRemoteradio.Alldatafrom
theMasterisreceivedandacknowledgedbyoneRemote.Alldatafromthesingle
RemoteisreceivedandacknowledgedbytheMasterradio.
Poll
Amethodofelectroniccommunication.
Power Supply
DevicethatsupplieselectricalpowertotheI/Ochassiscontainingtheprocessor,
coprocessor,orothermodules.
Protocol
Thelanguageorpackagingofinformatio nthatis transmittedbetweennodesona
network.