TRANSFER OF TELEGRAMS OVER A SHARED MEDIUM

A method for transmitting telegrams via a shared medium (SHM) included in a network, in particular in an industrial contact wire network, wherein the network includes a control unit, a master level, the shared medium, a slave level, and end devices, where an access to the shared medium is respectively performed via master- and/or slave-side modems, where the control unit communicates with the end devices via the shared medium, where at least one master- and/or slave-side traffic manager provides telegrams to the master- and/or slave-side modems, and where in order to reduce the number of accesses to the shared medium, the master- and/or slave-side traffic managers have knowledge of the structure of relevant parts of the network, and compile the telegrams into groups of telegrams.