Libera Brilliance is a precision digital Beam Position Monitor, a building block for modern fast orbit feedback systems. Gigabit Ethernet and UDP/IP protocol are used as a standard data link for real-time beam position signal transmission to the central fast feedback CPU engines. While the UDP/IP over Gigabit Ethernet provides a standardized and proven solution that enables the utilization of COTS components, the UDP and IP protocols are subject to a large data encapsulation overhead, since the beam position data payload is relatively small. To overcome this, several Libera Brilliance units (up to 64) have been grouped together in a redundant private network via the LC optical links and/or copper "Molex" cables. The purpose of the private network is to exchange the data among the Libera Brilliance units without the protocol overhead and send the gathered data via Gigabit Ethernet. Any of the Libera Brilliance units in a group can act as a Gigabit Ethernet group transmitter. The private network is redundant and can survive a single cable (double fibre) failure. The data encapsulation overhead has been significantly reduced, compared to standard Gigabit Ethernet solution. Libera Grouping is being tested at NSRRC, Taiwan [1].
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