A sea-change is in full swing within utilities. Generational changes are impacting telecommunications networks requiring increased bandwidth and security. But older telecommunications equipment may no longer be adequate to support an industry-wide shift to packet-based timing. While efficiency is increasing with the applications being introduced, the infrastructure of the networks has not seen enough change in the last few decades.
Just as the telecommunications, datacenter and substation architectures are changing, so too are the technologies and equipment for synchronizing networks. Utilities must examine current synchronization architectures that may not be engineered to support new timing technologies. That examination includes considerations such as:
•Network Evolution (Transport) – Carrier Ethernet, MPLS, MMW-Radio
•New timing protocols – IEEE-1588v2 and Synchronous Ethernet
•Wireless (5G, Private LTE)
•Fixed Wireless
•Digital Substation Timing
•Mitigating Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Vulnerabilities
This paper highlights some critical drivers for modernizing network synchronization, provides critical insight on what is important about these modern technologies, and outlines simple solutions to modernize your
synchronization network.
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