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Keeping Time: The Future of the Network

Modernizing synchronization architectures to meet the frequency and time requirements of a modern-day utility company 
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Overview

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, data center, 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.

What's included?

  • 8 Illustrations
  • 4 Chapters
  • 11 Pages
  • 1 PDF

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