14 Comparison of the Media

9.4 PROFINET (PN)

14

Comparison of the Media

The following table shows how the media principally differ from each other. The comparison is a simplification. In individual cases there
may be deviations from the entered values. In concrete application cases the respective manuals must therefore be consulted.

Table 14-1
Medium

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Net

Transmission rate
(from to)

maximal number
of partners

maximal distance
of two partners

maximal data
volume per
job

Routing
possible?

Redundant
structure
possible?

PROFINET/
Industrial Ethernet

PN: 10 to 100 MBit/s

IE: 1 GBit/s

over 1000
(*1)

electrical: 100 m (*2)

optical: 26 km (*2)
Radio waves: 100 m (*2)

64 KByte

yes
(not PN IO)

yes

PROFIBUS

9.6 Kbit/s to 12 Mbit/s

126

electrical: 1 km (without repeater)

or 10 km (with repeater)
optical: 1875 km (with OLM)

64 Kbytes

no

yes

MPI

187.5 Kbit/s to 12 Mbit/s

126

electrical: 50 m

64 Kbytes

no

no

SIMATIC backplane bus

(only for S7-400)

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4 CPUs in the
SIMATIC station

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64 Kbytes

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Serial interface
(ASCII, 3964(R), RK 512)

110 bit/s up to 115.2 Kbit/s

(20mA-TTY: up to 19.2
Kbit/s)

Point-to-Point: 2
Multipoint:
32

RS232C:
RS422/485:
20mA-TTY:

4 Kbytes

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15 m
1200 m
1000 m

Explanations for the table:

(*1): the maximal number of partners in a PROFINET IO network is restricted to 512.
(*2): maximal segment length

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