Teleprotection

Mark, RAD Engineer, Utility Communications: You’ve got plenty of options here:
1) You can either opt for a two-step process, in which some services will migrate or roll-out over IP infrastrucure but Teleprotection will remain a SONET/SDH based service, keeping current performance criteria, such as end-to-end delay. Eventually, the entire utility network will migrate to Ethernet/IP, including Teleprotection.

2) Alternatively, you can move your Teleprotection communications to next-gen from the get-go, provided your network solutions can satisfy your performance requirements. Ethernet has come a long way and now offers predictable performance and mission-critical accuracy. Make sure such solutions include rigorous traffic management with hierarchical scheduling, timing synchronization, OAM, fault management and performance monitoring mechanisms – all of which are standards-based – to deliver SONET/SDH-like performance. It’s possible to meet jitter and symmetrical delay criteria for Teleprotection even on an IP backbone.