Schneider Electric 890USE17700 - Manual (Page 20)

Introduction
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Conformance to
NIM Standards The STB NIP 2212 is designed to support all of the standard Advantys STB NIM
features and functions (See What Is a Network Interface Module?, p. 12). Because
an STB NIP 2212 runs Modbus as its fieldbus protocol, a device running the
Advantys configuration software or a human-machine interface (HMI) can attach to
either its fieldbus (Ethernet) port) (See STB NIP 2212 Network Interface, p. 26) or
its CFG port (See The CFG Interface, p. 33).
Ethernet Host PLCs and personal computers (PCs) configured with the Modbus protocol are
suitable upstream Ethernet hosts to islands using the STB NIP 2212 as their
gateway. The Ethernet host can be local or remote.