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Advanced claims its latest new product makes networking more flexible and configurable than ever.
The PENN (peripheral expansion network node) is a card and network node that accommodates Advanced’s range of peripheral input and output cards anywhere on the network, and up to 1.5km from the nearest fire panel or next PENN node.
Covering everything from input, interface and i/o cards to relay, sounder, LED and switch cards, up to 32 peripheral cards can be attached to a PENN and 199 PENNs can be added to a network. More than 6,000 peripheral cards can therefore be added almost anywhere around the network.
Until now, peripheral cards could only be connected to a fire panel’s P-BUS – although Advanced stresses that this remains an option – and no more distant than 10 metres from the panel.
“Advanced’s ease-of-use and the power and resilience of its networking are already well understood and admired,” says Aston Bowles, head of marketing at Advanced. “The PENN provides our customers with more freedom, even simpler installation, and configuration that improves performance and reduces installation costs.
“Freeing the peripheral cards from the panel is a good idea, but the creative ways our customers are using the PENN and peripheral cards to solve installation and configuration challenges is genuinely surprising, and we’re seeing it used on all manner and sizes of projects.”
The PENN is currently compatible with Advanced’s MxPro multiprotocol panels and Axis EN fire systems.
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Advanced launches peripheral expansion network node for more flexible, configurable networkingShortened to ‘PENN’, the new product is a card and network node that accommodates Advanced's range of peripheral input and output cards anywhere on the network, and up to 1.5km from the nearest fire panel or next PENN node.
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