• High Reliability: MTBF >1,000,000hrs
• High Availability: >99.9999%
• High EMI Immunity: IEEE 1613-Class 2
• Integrated Cyber Security: NERC CIP
• Precision Time Sync: <1µs
• Support for Protection & Control applications
• Support for: AMI, DA, DMS, EMS, SCADA & IT
• Standards Based
• RuggedRated™ for Utility environments

The RuggedRated™ symbol identifies communications products that have been specifically designed and tested to withstand the demands of harsh industrial environments.

Here’s one definition:
“An integrated communications and power system infrastructure which allows for robust two-way communications, advanced sensors, and distributed computers to improve the efficiency, reliability and safety of power delivery and use.”

Here’s another:
“The integration of communications networks with the power grid in order to create an electricity-communications superhighway capable of monitoring its own health at all times, alerting officials immediately when problems arise, and automatically taking corrective actions that enable the grid to fail gracefully and prevent a local failure from cascading out of control, as happened August 14, 2003 (The Great Northeast Blackout).”

Next to the power system the most critical infrastructure to creating a reliable high-performance Smart Grid is the communications infrastructure.

The most comprehensive “Utility Grade” product offering:

• Substation Hardened: IEEE 1613, IEC 61850-3
• Zero-packet-loss™ under EMI stress
  (KEMA tested)
• IEEE 1613 Class 2 performance (KEMA tested)
• Extended Temperature: -40 to 85°C
• Wireline & Wireless for WAN, MAN, NAN & LAN
• Standards based: IEEE, IEC, IETF, NERC... etc

RuggedGrid — The Communications Backbone of the Smart Grid™

RuggedCom has developed communications products and technologies specifically designed to operate reliably in harsh environments such as those found in electric utility substations.  These products comprise what we call our RuggedGRID™ solution and are designed to create a reliable and rugged communications backbone for the Smart Grid: "Enabling the Smart Grid" PDF

• Modular Architecture; Field Hot-Swappable
• High Port Density and Mix
• Layer 3 Routing and Switching
• Integrated Cyber Security features for NERC CIP
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

• Integrated Routing, Firewall and VPN
• Support for NERC CIP Cyber Security
• Mulitple WAN/LAN interfaces
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

• High EMI immunity: Zero-Packet-Loss
• High Availability and Reliability
• Integrated Cyber Security features for NERC CIP
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

• High Speed Low-Latency WiMAX Designed for Distribution Automation
• Substation hardened WiFi and Cellular routers
• Integrated Cyber Security features for NERC CIP
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

RuggedGrid™ — means Utility Grade communication

The RuggedGRID solution provides communications that is Utility Grade which means it has the following characteristics and performance levels:

• Substation Hardened: IEEE 1613, IEC 61850-3
• Zero-packet-loss™ under EMI stress (KEMA tested)
  • IEEE 1613 Class 2 performance (KEMA tested)
• Extended Temperature: -40 to +85°C
• High reliability: MTBF > 1,000,000 hours
• High availability: > 99.9999%
• Wireline & wireless for WAN, MAN, NAN and LAN
• Standards based: e.g. IEEE, IEC, IETF, NERC

Learn more about Substation Hardened Ethernet
More information about NERC Cyber Security