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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2013
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, DE;
Michael Armbruster, München, DE;
Ludger Fiege, Grafing, DE;
Johannes Riedl, Ergolding, DE;
Thomas Schmid, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE;
Andreas Zirkler, München, DE;
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, , DE;
Abstract
A communications network with a plurality of network devices is provided. The communications network has a plurality N of virtual networks, which are implemented in the communications network in such a manner that each of the network devices is coupled to the communications network via at least two virtual networks. The communications network also has a plurality of network segments. A subset of the network devices is assigned to each of the network segments, wherein each network device arranged at a peripheral region of a network segment has N limiting units, each of the N limiting units being assigned to a respective one of the N virtual networks and designed to limit a data reception of the respective virtual network to a threshold for the data transmission rate predetermined for the respective virtual network.