Purpose-Built for Teleprotection and Superior Performance

• High speed protection switching within 3ms
• Low end-to-end service latency within <1ms over SONET/SDH transport layers
• Designed with layers of redundancy for improved security and dependability
• ‘AAA’ secured and encryption for improved reliability

Single Solution Converging and Simplifying Operations

• Flexible design for deployment across backhaul, aggregation and access networks
• One box solution for mission critical OT and IT, capable of connecting multiple and diverse applications
• Integrated and application-driven software simplifies network management
• Network-wide Summary and Status Information dashboard for simplified health and integrity validation

Ruggedized with modular design lowering total cost of ownership

• Industrially hardened with no cooling fans for longer life in harsh environments
• Offers integrated application-specific access modules designed for critical production relaying applications
• Certified to IEEE 1613 and IEC 61850-3 substation hardening requirements
• Processes 24 Gb/s of traffic across the extended -20°C to + 60°C operating temperature
• Flexible redistribution of service ports

The JunglePAX platform is designed for utilities with critical utility communications in mind. GE Vernova’s JPAX offers a truly converged solution with security and dependability for all applications whether they are critical Teleprotection circuits or for less time-sensitive business IT needs. Security and Dependability ensure data will be delivered and received on time when an actual data packet is sent, and data will not be falsely received when no data was sent. Both are key performance requirements to ensure utility communications reliably operate at all times. JunglePAX equipment is

• Purpose built for teleprotection and superior performance
• Single solution converging and simplifying operations
• Ruggedized and Modular Design Lowering Total Cost of Ownership

JunglePAX Hybrid⁺ technology offers the best of both worlds by preserving SONET/SDH performance in a packet-switched network. This is achieved by adding an independent SONET/SDH layer alongside the MPLS-TP layer (without impacting its capacity) over the same optical WAN link. Use of this layer is optional and is intended for TDM-based relaying applications (C37.94, RS-232 Mirrored Bit, G.703 64k etc.) that are extremely delay sensitive.

Hybrid⁺ Technology found only in JunglePAX permits migration from SONET/SDH to Packet-transport technologies without compromising application performance, equipment reliability and network-wide availability.

Modernizing optical communications infrastructure without performance impact

Hybrid⁺ Technology found only in JunglePAX permits migration from SONET/SDH to Packet-transport technologies without compromising application performance, equipment reliability and network-wide availability.

What is Hybrid Transport Mode and why is it important?

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• Summary here
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Utilities are concerned about the impact on critical infrastructure and damage or injury associated with a fault condition on the transmission network. Teleprotection is a critical utility application that enables protection devices to communicate in a coordinated, reliable and expeditious way. Distance or directional comparison relays that send tripping signals require deterministic communications with low propagation delay edge (substation) to edge (substation), often as low as within 8ms. The faster the tripping signal can be transmitted across network, the quicker the dangerous energized state can be removed. Due to their importance, tripping signals cannot tolerate network disturbances affecting availability, capacity, physical communication failures, maintenance related outages or security vulnerabilities.

JunglePAX Solution for Teleprotection

The JunglePAX platform has been designed for teleprotection applications with layers of redundancy to ensure there is no single point of weakness, industry leading protection switching within 3ms, and low end-to-end service latency within 1ms excluding propagation delay.

Below is a teleprotection application example, which walks through the sequence of events that the JunglePAX platform would perform to ensure that critical teleprotection circuits are delivered securely and dependably across the network.

Application Defined Networking

The Lentronics JunglePAX is ideal for power utility operations and IT applications, supporting the following typical applications:

Application Example: Transmission Cable Fault

The JunglePAX comprises of replaceable and hot swappable interface cards which ensure that the platform is easy to maintain. The flexible mix of client service cards provides utilities with a solution that addresses changing communications requirements.

* future release

IT and OT applications have traditionally operated independently over disparate networks, each serving the utility networking groups differently. IT and OT-centric applications can remain separated (i.e., metering from protection) although converged application can share the same space, generating opportunities for utilities to improve OPEX and CAPEX through elimination of redundancy and simplification initiatives.

More components within utility systems are becoming intelligent and requiring new communication connections and functions, generating demand for:

• Real time control in energy delivery support for heterogeneous networks and integration of previously segmented and disparate networks
• Lower utility operational costs through economy of scale, and convergence of operation and information technologies
• A converged network is required, with:
  • Increased system capabilities,
  • Ability to ensure the performance of critical and time-sensitive applications,
  • Simplified and secure technology

GE Vernova and Ribbon Communications have partnered producing an optimized proposition for utilities requiring more from their network. This solution will protect people and critical assets, scaling across the entire communications landscape with information assurance as traffic flows securely across network boundaries.

System Components

MDS Intrepid P2MP provides high capacity and scalable solutions for deployment within multipoint communication networks. By selection of the base station's sector angle (60, 90 or 120 degrees) multiple subscriber systems can installed within a given area to optimize efficiency and maximize sector throughput up to 200 Mbps aggregate. Time-Division Duplexing (TDD) synchronizes Intrepid P2MP base stations to accommodate multiple co-location systems and coverage overlap without introducing self-inflicted interference. MDS Intrepid P2MP is optimized as an Ethernet bridge for IP traffic operating with 10/100/1000Base T at the base station and with 10/100BaseT at subscriber units.

MDS Intrepid P2MP System Components

e-terrapowercom uses power cables as a medium for digital communication necessary for automation and control of the power grid. The solution delivers a transparent IP network with Quality-of-Service (QoS) to prioritize critical applications, and uses Virtual LANs (VLAN) to separate data streams of each distinct service. In order to improve asset control and maintenance, IP video cameras and telephones can be deployed in key substations due to the exceeding bandwidth provided. The communication system can be rolled out over a large number of substations starting from High Voltage (HV) substation to several kilometers over the grid, as it does not require heavy civil works and additional infrastructure.

Industries can take advantage of the power grid built to supply energy to production and machinery to create IP communication channels, using the e-terrapowercom solution. This data channel can provide backhauling for operating local networks, telemetry on remote devices, and supervision of the assets connected to the control center. In addition, environments like underground facilities often have limited radio coverage and Broadband Power Line enables connecting such areas.

Long Range Version

The e-terrapowercom is also available in a long range version, which has a higher power density in shorter frequency channel to attain longer distances or overcome noisier environments. The maximum bandwidth is reduced and it is dedicated to specific cases.

Coupling Options

The e-terrapowercom modem is connected to the electrical grid through inductive or capacitive coupling devices. Inductive is used over insulated cables while capacitive requires a connection to a live part of the grid. Inductive is easy and fast to install, especially in cubicles and small rooms. Capacitive is mainly dedicated to overhead lines.

A Cyber Secured Service Unit can be deployed in one of two operational modes, Legacy or Secure. Legacy mode (CSSU-L) offers a consistent set of features that supports interoperability with pre-existing Service or IP Service Units.

Secure mode (CSSU-S) is a licensed component that must be applied to all CSSUs within a ring, or across the entire management domain. In this case, a network-wide security envelope is formed to protect and control assets through Authentication, Authorization, Accountability, Privacy and Integrity.

Updating the CSSUs Access Control List: Example of Revoking Users Access

* Equipped with CSSU-S code

Advanced network management for hardened optical multiplexers and packet/hybrid platforms providing:

• A real-time synchronized architecture to meet five 9s.
• High performance engine supports hundreds of users, thousands of network elements, and numerous protocols, all concurrently!
• EnerVista™ INSIGHT is a product within the Advanced Network Management suite

GE Vernova EnerVista™ INSIGHT is offered in LITE and GOLD versions, both framed by a system map tile to visualize inter-device connections and status, along with ‘Physical’ and ‘Traffic’ selectors that aid to refine navigation and asset targeting. EnerVista™ INSIGHT-LITE is designed for operators focused on network-wide event detection and coordination only, with optional functionality to email and escalate issues to a global community of support staff. EnerVista™ INSIGHT-GOLD provides expanded functions to monitor, configure and maintain the managed assets.

Smart Tiles

Smart Tiles are applications within GE Vernova’s Advanced Network Manager offering users contextual navigation and customizable dashboards which simplify tasks by reducing the number of application windows open at one time.

A number of tiles are available to users that separately display alarms, PM data, physical topology, facilities & circuits that interact dynamically to the operator's selection. Following Microsoft® standard Windows layouts including ribbon integration, this ‘click once’ technology provides a cohesive representation of network and device status and offers automatic tracking of actions through user-defined tile relationships (parent / child).

How Smart Tiles Empower the Operator

• Enable users to define their custom views
• Predict user actions to improve operator effectiveness
• Accelerate user action and responsiveness
• Minimize user “clicking” and launching of additional applications
• Save preferred dashboard configurations and run concurrent dashboards
• Extend field technician capabilities with browser access to key tiles

eMS Components

The JunglePAX solution follows a utility telecom model for device, element and network management functionality. Central to the overall architecture, a highly functional and redundant embedded Management System (eMS) is running within each CORE module to complement external managers and to simplify their complexity.

eMS exists within each CORE module, independent of data and control planes. It facilitates:

• Device-level requests, and
• Network-wide service & infrastructure requests from element and network management solutions.

From a user’s perspective, network management of a JPAX network is performed through EnerVista™ INSIGHT, local-management of a node is performed via the embedded manager hosted within the gateway node acting as a secure agent for FCAPS functions. eMS is also used by technical staff for initial equipment setup, local configuration changes, alarm and event analysis through an off-the-shelf web-browser such as Google Chrome. Web browsers establish a secure connection through an NMS port at any JPAX node acting as a proxy (eMS gateway node) to visualize the entire JPAX network, independent from the NMS platform. eMS is also implemented in a software redundant manner within each JPAX node to ensure high availability and reliability.