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Building mission critical networks has always been the
challenge to address for OTN Systems. The companies
OTN (Open Transport Network) product line has been
the market leader in the transportation sector and the
world of oil and gas since the late nineties. OTN Systems
was able to do that by keeping a constant focus on the
key requirements of its customers.
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XTran Empowering the Grid
Telecommunication needs for power utilities differ to a Therefore, the network must be easy to manage -
great extent from the requirements encountered in a making sure that customers can be supported for their
carrier or an enterprise environment. Carriers want to sell mission critical applications at all times.
telecom services, while optimizing business processes is
key in the enterprise world. Utility companies however
have a different challenge as they need to deliver power
to their customers, in an efficient way, 100% guaranteed.
A reliable telecommunication network is an important
building block to achieve this. One cant expect the
protection engineer to
Maximizing the lifetime of legacy equipment
handle a highly complex
telecom infrastructure.
Utility companies have built up their power grids over
the last decades. The lifecycle of the grid components
is long. Step up transformers, protection relays or circuit
breakers may well be in place for 30 years and are still
running fine. Needless to say that the network needs to Zero impact of environmental conditions
handle all this legacy equipment for quite some time.
Power substations do not look like telco rooms or
data centers. Air-conditioning: probably not. Room
temperatures: unpredictable. EMC/EMI: you bet! The
electro-magnetic fields that are present in the substations
are significant, especially when a short circuit occurs. In
The network needs particular on this occasion the network plays a vital role.
to handle all legacy The network equipment needs to be hardened and
equipment for quite needs to comply with the most demanding environmental
standards like IEC 61850-3 and IEEE 1613.
some time.
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i.e. have put the line out of service. All this needs to Also false trip signals should be avoided by all means
happen in milliseconds. With differential protection, the (security). Needless to say that the underlying
delay of the data transmission has to be constant and telecommunication network needs to be highly reliable
symmetrical. and secure.
PROTECTION
CONTROL
CENTER
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XTran Empowering the Grid
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Improved OAM (Operations, Administration
and Maintenance) supporting better fault and
MPLS-TP comes with performance management further improving the
extra functionality operators visibility on the network behavior.
to support mission Its obvious that MPLS-TP is the ideal packet technology
critical transport of for power utilities to deal with the ever increasing
information. amount of data. One can consider it as the packet-
alternative to good old SDH/SONET. Its remarkable
that, despite being a packet based technology, it offers
the same functionality in terms of network resilience and
predictability as SDH/SONET. Moreover, MPLS-TP offers
To name some of the benefits of MPLS-TP compared to
unique features making the network operators life less
MPLS:
complex.
Deterministic character and improved network
predictability:
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XTran Empowering the Grid
An XTran network consists of nodes, interconnected XTran comes with a unique set of features
by copper or fiber, and a management system called
TXCare. A variety of node types is available providing the Hitless switching on circuit emulation. Not a single bit
ideal solution for each location. All nodes are substation of information will get lost in case of a failure of the
hardened. The network is perfectly scalable from tens of prime route.
nodes to potentially thousands of nodes. Cost-effective
SHDSL modules are available to reach the furthest 802.1x, Radius Authentication, Access Control Lists
outskirts of a territory. Any topology can be constructed and wire speed encryption of the links between the
with the XTran portfolio. On the WAN side, gigabit nodes to enhance security.
Ethernet and 10 Gbps interfaces are available - evolving
to 40 Gbps and higher. Fanless design.
XTran comes with an unprecedented suite of interface OAM according to Y.1731 and BFD provides
cards for legacy equipment, including a C37.94 board, as protection and performance management.
well as state of the art Ethernet/PoE interface boards. Sub-50 ms protection switching for any network
One can create various types of logical tunnels between topology.
the nodes: point-to-point, multipoint and logical rings. IEEE 1613/IEC 61850 compliance.
Creating back-up paths is only a mouse click away.
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XTran Empowering the Grid
CLEVER
TAILORED
Modular design
SAFE
Sub-50 ms redundancy
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XTran Empowering the Grid
OTN SYSTEMS NV
Tel: +32 14 25 28 47
Fax: +32 14 25 20 23
E-mail: info@otnsystems.com
www.otnsystems.com
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