Method Of Operating A Shielded Connection, And Communication Network

摘要

To provide a method of operating a shielded connection where signals are exchanged between two nodes ( 1 ) on a communications network over a connecting line ( 5 a, 5 b) and the connecting line ( 5 a, 5 b) has a shield ( 3 ), by which method can be established that the shield ( 3 ) is in a proper state, it is proposed that when a signal is transmitted from a first node ( 1 ) over the connecting line ( 5 ) to a neighboring node a current (I_shield) is drawn into the shield ( 3 ) and when operation is taking place in other ways the shield ( 3 ) is set to a bias voltage (U_Bias). A suitably arranged communications network is also specified.