JPAX family

Purpose-Built for Teleprotection and Superior Performance

• High speed protection switching within 3ms
• Low end-to-end service latency within <1ms over SONET/SDH transport layers
• Designed with layers of redundancy for improved security and dependability
• ‘AAA’ secured and encryption for improved reliability

Single Solution Converging and Simplifying Operations

• Flexible design for deployment across backhaul, aggregation and access networks
• One box solution for mission critical OT and IT, capable of connecting multiple and diverse applications
• Integrated and application-driven software simplifies network management
• Network-wide Summary and Status Information dashboard for simplified health and integrity validation

Ruggedized with modular design lowering total cost of ownership

• Industrially hardened with no cooling fans for longer life in harsh environments
• Offers integrated application-specific access modules designed for critical production relaying applications
• Certified to IEEE 1613 and IEC 61850-3 substation hardening requirements
• Processes 24 Gb/s of traffic across the extended -20°C to + 60°C operating temperature
• Flexible redistribution of service ports

JunglePAX Overview

The JunglePAX platform is designed for utilities with critical utility communications in mind. GE’s JPAX offers a truly converged solution with security and dependability for all applications whether they are critical Teleprotection circuits or for less time-sensitive business IT needs. Security and Dependability ensure data will be delivered and received on time when an actual data packet is sent, and data will not be falsely received when no data was sent. Both are key performance requirements to ensure utility communications reliably operate at all times. JunglePAX equipment is

• Purpose built for teleprotection and superior performance
• Single solution converging and simplifying operations
• Ruggedized and Modular Design Lowering Total Cost of Ownership

The JunglePAX solution can be applied to the overall power infrastructure from the Core (Backhaul) network to Aggregation and Access Networks, providing an application-defined approach to utility networking that assures service quality, security and performance.

Hybrid⁺ Mode, for critical teleprotection where 1ms latency is too slow

JunglePAX Hybrid⁺ technology offers the best of both worlds by preserving SONET/SDH performance in a packet-switched network. This is achieved by adding an independent SONET/SDH layer alongside the MPLS-TP layer (without impacting its capacity) over the same optical WAN link. Use of this layer is optional and is intended for TDM-based relaying applications (C37.94, RS-232 Mirrored Bit, G.703 64k etc.) that are extremely delay sensitive.

Hybrid⁺ Technology found only in JunglePAX permits migration from SONET/SDH to Packet-transport technologies without compromising application performance, equipment reliability and network-wide availability.

Modernizing optical communications infrastructure without performance impact

Hybrid⁺ Technology found only in JunglePAX permits migration from SONET/SDH to Packet-transport technologies without compromising application performance, equipment reliability and network-wide availability.

What is Hybrid Transport Mode and why is it important?

• Watch the full session here
• Summary here
• See the performance results here

Teleprotection Application

Utilities are concerned about the impact on critical infrastructure and damage or injury associated with a fault condition on the transmission network. Teleprotection is a critical utility application that enables protection devices to communicate in a coordinated, reliable and expeditious way. Distance or directional comparison relays that send tripping signals require deterministic communications with low propagation delay edge (substation) to edge (substation), often as low as within 8ms. The faster the tripping signal can be transmitted across network, the quicker the dangerous energized state can be removed. Due to their importance, tripping signals cannot tolerate network disturbances affecting availability, capacity, physical communication failures, maintenance related outages or security vulnerabilities.

JunglePAX Solution for Teleprotection

The JunglePAX platform has been designed for teleprotection applications with layers of redundancy to ensure there is no single point of weakness, industry leading protection switching within 3ms, and low end-to-end service latency within 1ms excluding propagation delay.

Below is a teleprotection application example, which walks through the sequence of events that the JunglePAX platform would perform to ensure that critical teleprotection circuits are delivered securely and dependably across the network.

Application Defined Networking

The Lentronics JunglePAX is ideal for power utility operations and IT applications, supporting the following typical applications:

Application Example: Transmission Cable Fault

JunglePAX provides reliable inter-substation relay communications during primary communications path failures

JunglePAX Components

The JunglePAX comprises of replaceable and hot swappable interface cards which ensure that the platform is easy to maintain. The flexible mix of client service cards provides utilities with a solution that addresses changing communications requirements.

Technical Specifications

* future release

IT and OT applications have traditionally operated independently over disparate networks, each serving the utility networking groups differently. IT and OT-centric applications can remain separated (i.e., metering from protection) although converged application can share the same space, generating opportunities for utilities to improve OPEX and CAPEX through elimination of redundancy and simplification initiatives.

More components within utility systems are becoming intelligent and requiring new communication connections and functions, generating demand for:

• Real time control in energy delivery support for heterogeneous networks and integration of previously segmented and disparate networks
• Lower utility operational costs through economy of scale, and convergence of operation and information technologies
• A converged network is required, with:
  • Increased system capabilities,
  • Ability to ensure the performance of critical and time-sensitive applications,
  • Simplified and secure technology

GE and Ribbon Communications have partnered producing an optimized proposition for utilities requiring more from their network. This solution will protect people and critical assets, scaling across the entire communications landscape with information assurance as traffic flows securely across network boundaries.