Industrial ethernet controller

The Bus Terminal system, which offers more than 250 different types of I/O terminals and supports 17 fieldbus/industrial ethernet solutions, has been expanded with the introduction of the BC9120, BC9020 and BC9050 controllers.

Used as a head station, any of these controllers turns an I/O system into a versatile small controller.

The controllers differ in terms of technical features and price. They can be operated as standalone PLC or as decentralised intelligence in an ethernet network. All ethernet controllers have implemented the Modbus TCP, ADS/TCP, ADS/UDP, BootP, DHCP, SNTP and SMTP protocols.

The BC9120 has two ethernet ports that act as a 2-channel switch. The I/O stations can therefore be configured with a line topology, instead of the traditional star topology.