FOX615 multiplexing platform.

Enabling GOOSE and SV

messaging thanks to
TEGO1 interface card.

GOOSE and Sampled Value Proxy

Gateway interface module.

FOX615 TEGO1 IEC 61850

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FOX615 multiplexing platform.
Enabling GOOSE and SV messaging
thanks to TEGO1 interface card.
For substation automation systems, the IEC 61850 standard has been widely
accepted. With the ongoing digitalization of electrical substations, GOOSE and
SV based line protection applications become a greater focus.
The same standard provides defined messaging for
IEC 61850 signal exchange between IEDs with
different protocols. For binary signals such as trip
signals, GOOSE (Generic Object Oriented
Substation Events) messaging has been defined,
while SV (Sampled Values) are used for transmitting
digitized instantaneous values of currents and
voltages. The TEGO1 interface card of the FOX615
multiplexing platform now offers an integrated IEC
61850 interface being able to connect directly to the
IEC 61850 station/process bus of an electrical
substation. This interface allows to use GOOSE and
SV messages for line distance and differential
protection or for new applications such as remote
trip or interlocking.
The traditional approach to protection applications
brings certain complexity to the protection system.
This remained as such even if today’s IEC 61850
framework would allow for a great simplification
through the usage of GOOSE and SV based
messages for line distance and differential
protection applications.
For instance, in the traditional way of line distance
protection, electrical high voltage signals have to
be brought from the relay to the communication
equipment.
EMC/ EMI aspects have to be considered as well as
substantial cabling efforts since per command two
cables have to be connected and usual protection
schemes consist of several commands per
powerline. Availability is limited since redundancy
of cabling, as well as supervision of end to end
solution is often not ensured. Last but not least the
performance of the overall protection solution is
restricted by the speed of the binary contacts with
it's relatively slow switchover times leading to
longer fault clearing times than necessary. Similar
considerations can be extended to traditional way
of differential protection. The ongoing trend for
digital substations with it’s undoubted benefits on
visibility and flexibility makes the usage of GOOSE
and SV based protection applications obvious, if
the same can provide the required performance
parameters such as dependability and security
defined in IEC 60834-1 standard as well as a secure
access from the WAN to the substation IEC 61850
station bus.

TEGO1 forms part of the IEC 61850 world. It
represents the remote IED in the local substation.
TEGO1 key features.
• 4 x FE/ GbE interfaces (SFP based for direct
connection with the station/process bus of IEC
61850 substations.
• Representation of remote IED for inter substation
IEC 61850 GOOSE/SV signal transmission.
• Filtering capabilities for GOOSE/SV messages.
• Translation capabilities of GOOSE/SV messages to
resolve potential addressing/naming conflicts
between substations.
• Redbox functionality for connection to PRP
• Redundant station bus (one card/two card
solution).
• L2 firewall for access restriction from the WAN to
the substation station bus..
• Hitless redundancy for GOOSE/SV protection
communication channels.
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• Guaranteed data integrity thanks to authentication
of data streams.
• 6 electrical and 1 optical IRIG-B/PPS outputs for
synchronization of end devices to GPS
Grandmaster clock.
• IEEE1588v2 PTP Boundary Clock (master role) for
providing time of day to the substation.
• Support of PTP Power profile as per IEC 61850-
9-3 (2016-05)
• PTP profile translation capability, from Telecom to
Power PTP profile
• SNTP master/client functionality
• MMS status reporting to substation automation
system for full IEC 61850 compliance.
• Enhanced traffic supervision
• Full integration in FOXMAN-UN network
management system
• Direct relay-to-relay optical interconnection
through multiplexer without any converter boxes.
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GOOSE and SV Signal Translation.
TEGO1 forms part of the IEC 61850 world.
Avoiding reconfiguration of existing IEC 61850
substation configurations.
IEC 61850 has been used for substation automation
for many years. It originated as a technology that
was only applicable for internal substation purposes.
Only with recent developments such as IEC TR
61850-90-1 GOOSE and SV have been considered
for substation to substation protection signal
transmission.
Three main problems arise when IEC 61850 GOOSE/
SV messages are used for inter substation
communication.
01
GOOSE/SV is a layer 2 protocol, direct connection
between substations would mean connection of the
two so far separated station buses with all related
problems arising when different local area networks
are connected on L2 basis only.
02
When IEC 61850 based substations were
introduced, the concept of using GOOSE and SV
messages for communication between substations
was not considered. Due to this, there has usually
not been a country wide planning on IP addresses of
IED’s, application IDs or used VLANs. Changing this
at a later stage would be a major effort related with
(at least) a partial reconfiguration of the substation.
03
Since GOOSE/SV messages are based on Ethernet
packets, and the station bus is based on an Ethernet
Switched network cyber security aspects such as
data integrity and access restrictions need to be
considered, and this in the light of critical
applications with strong real time requirements
TEGO1 has been developed to specifically
address these issues. TEGO1 provides:
• A fast L2 tunnel for GOOSE/SV messages with
specific filtering in order to avoid the L2 network
problems and flooding of all information to all sites.
Staying on L2 ensures the highest possible
performance for critical GOOSE and SV signals.
• The translation functionality for GOOSE/SV fields
like VLAN and Multicast address or application ID
in order to resolve potential conflicts when using
GOOSE/SV between substations hence avoiding
reconfiguration of already commissioned
substations when GOOSE/SV is used for line
distance or differential protection applications.
• Filtering and translation happens at wire speed
which results in a TEGO1 being as fast as a
transparent L2 tunnel between substation with the
flexibility of a proxygateway being able to change
related GOOSE/SV fields.
• L2 application based firewall functionality to
restrict access to the station/process bus from the
wide area network
• Authentication of GOOSE/SV messages for man in
the middle attack and replay protection
TEGO1 is an IED acting as a proxy gateway for
GOOSE/SV signals between substations.
TEGO1 represents the remote IED inside the local
substation and resolves at the same time all
potential conflicts by performing required translation
functions at wire speed. With this, an IED cannot
distinguish if the IED is just connected to the local
station bus or if it is hundreds of kilometers away on
the other side
of the power line. By representing the remote IED all
of the standard IED 61850 functionality is performed
such as subscription to GOOSE and SV messages
or status supervision of the local IEC 61850
substation automation system using MMS.
In order to allow this, TEGO1 is integrated into the
local SCD file and configured there initially.
This is done at both sides and brought together in
the TEGO1 configuration tool, where the mapping
between the different substations is completed. In
order to finalize the configuration, updates of the
different substation SCD files need to be performed.

Digitizing substations with TEGO1
Precise Time of Day, Redundancy and Security
WAN
PTP
FOX615
IRIG-B
SNTP
IED
01 Time of day
distribution
to end devices.
02 FOX615 as a redbox
for PRP station bus. 01
Simple time of day distribution.
Time of day information is fundamental for many
electrical grid operation applications. Fault
recorders, event recorders, differential protection
relays and also wide area protection schemes using
synchrophasors rely on it for correct operation or for
statistical analysis at a later stage.
FOX615 can be synchronized from a centralized
grandmaster clock by using IEEE 1588v2 PTP
protocol (Telecom Profile) as well as Synchronous
Ethernet. With an accuracy of < 1 us, the time of day
information is then distributed through TEGO1 to
substations and end devices. TEGO1 acts as a
boundary clock in master role and translates from
the PTP Telecom profile, used in the WAN, to the
required Power profile (according to IEC61850-9-3
2016-05) needed in the station bus to guarantee
interoperability among the different PTP-capable
substation devices. Thanks to TEGO1 advanced
timing capability, IEEE1588v2 PTP is now a viable
option to any local GNSS solution for distributing
time of day to substations.
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WAN
1+1 hitless protection
FOX615
PRP Redundant
Station Bus
IED
IED IED
02
Redundancy and security - TEGO1 increases the
availability and security of your protection
solution.
TEGO1 provides the possibility to connect to a PRP
redundant station bus architecture and acts as a
redbox. In order to ensure redundancy in the WAN
communication TEGO1 provides hitless redundancy
for critical GOOSE/SV signal transmission.
In case of problems in the WAN, where one of the
redundant communication channel fails, the hitless
redundancy ensures that the protection application
is not affected at all.
In order to detect cyber security incidents, such as
signal modification or replay attacks, TEGO1 allows
an authentication of critical protection data. For
security of the station bus infrastructure a L2 firewall
working on white listing principle is implemented.
With this, all unauthorized access from the WAN to
the station bus can be stopped. The solution works
on a denial per default principle while the
performance of the protection application is not
compromised.
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Digital Substation with GOOSE and SV

for line protection.
The benefits for IEC 61850
substation design.

WAN

IEC 61870-5-104 DNP3

RTU
Substation
Control System

Multiplexer

Station Bus

FOX615

110VCD TRIP

Relay (21)

110VCD TRIP

Relay (21)

110VCD TRIP

Relay (21)

Copper based

03 Traditional 03
Substation design
with contact based
distance protection

Figure 3 shows a conventional setup of a line
distance protection application. The distance
protection relay (21) is connected with multiple
cables to the teleprotection interface on the
multiplexer (or to a dedicated teleprotection
equipment). All those connections are replaced by
a single fiber connection as indicated in Figure 4.
By using IEC 61850-based protection various
benefits arise:
• Easier setup of the protection system by using one
technology resulting in overall better protection
performance (faster protection system).
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WAN

IEC 61870-5-104 DNP3

RTU
Substation
Control System

MMS
GOOSE and PTP

Station Bus

Multiplexer

Relay (21)

FOX615

Relay (21)

Relay (21)

04 Digital Substation 04
design using GOOSE
for line distance
protection

• A reduction in cabling due to less additional
copper cables being required for trip signals.
• Less EMC/ EMI and safety problems by using fiber
optic communication media.
• Increased flexibility since new or modified
protection schemes can be implemented by
software modification only.
• Better visibility and supervision of the solution by
integrating the solution in the communication
network management system as well as the
substation automation system.
• Increased availability of protection system.
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The benefits of using IEC 61850-based line

protection application.
Innovative line protection schemes
beyond todays limits.

WAN

IEC 61870-5-104 DNP3

RTU
Substation
Control System

MMS
GOOSE and PTP

Station Bus

Multiplexer

Relay (87)

FOX615
Relay (87)

Process Bus SV and PTP

05 Innovative design 05
using GOOSE and SV for
line differential protection

Figure 5 shows how TEGO1 provides the application Thanks to its IEC61850 proxy gateway functionality,
of IEC61850 to line differential protection enabling TEGO1 enables highly innovative protection
simplified substation communication network layout. approaches. It allows connection up to eight
In the traditional approach, the differential protection substations for bidirectional exchange of GOOSE
relay (87) is connected with specific IEEE C37.94 and SV messages allowing the implementation of
optical cable to the teleprotection interface of the distributed protection schemes by serving various
multiplexer. With TEGO1, this is no longer needed. remote ends at once as indicated in Figure 5.
Nor is the conversion of protection signals from TDM
to packet technology, thus resulting in faster clearing
times. Current and voltage measurements are
provided directly to the process bus through real-
time SV streams.
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Substation A TEGO1 IED

Substation B

Substation C

(PRP red.) Station Bus

Substation D

Substation E

Substation F

06 Digital Substation 06
design using GOOSE and
SV for line protection
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Network Management System.

Network Management system.
All modules of FOX615, including a variety of
services and applications, are managed centrally by
FOXMAN management system, the network
management system for the complete
communications portfolio.
Easy and intuitive configuration of user dialogues
and equipment views is ensured by FOXCST, the
graphical configuration tool. TEGO1 offers a special
configuration tool for IEC 61850 configuration where
SCD files from the substations can be imported,
TEGO1 IEC 61850 configuration be done and
required modification of SCD file exported again to
the substation automation system, as well as to the
FOXCST.
With FOXMAN and FOXCST utilities can enhance
the overall performance of their operational
networks, saving costs and accelerating the circuit
provisioning process with only one element manager
for all service types.

Technical Data.
Feature Rating or standard

General Synchronisation
Amount of Ports 4 SFP front ports, FE/ GbE SNTP Master/ Slave
Port configuration mode Individual or PRP redundant IEEE1588v2 PTP Boundary clock (master role)
PTP Telecom Profile to PTP Power
Redundancy Profile acc. IEC61850-9-3 (2016-
WAN Hitless 1+1 (0 ms) 05)
LAN (Station/process bus) PRP redbox
Supported serial PPS and IRIG-B-B002,5,6
Gateway IED for GOOSE/ IEC 61850 time code formats
SV between substations
IRIG-B output 6 electrical outputs
Trip counters 4 per instance 1 optical output
Event recorder User Events and GOOSE events
Performance <200 us transmission time back to
back Environment
Temperature rating -25°C – +65°C
Fanless -25°C - +55°C
Functionality
EMC standards Generic: EN 61000-6-3, EN
Filter criteria for GOOSE/ Subscription to GOOSE message
61000-6-2;
SV
Specific: IEC 61000-4-2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Amount of GOOSE up to 32 GOOSE messages / 6 / 8 / 16 / 18 / 29
messages per card Product standards IEC 61850, IEEE 1613, IEC60834-1
Amount of SV streams per Up to 12 independent streams Electrical safety EN 60950-1
card
Electrical isolation IEC 60255-5
Amount of instances up to 8
MTBF 100 years
Translation of GOOSE/SV MAC DA (Destination Address)
fields APPID (IEC 61850 Application ID)
VLAN Tag
goCBRef (Goose control block
reference)
datset (data set)
goID (Goose ID)

TEGO1 status supervision Integrated in FOXMAN-UN

MMS message for substation
automation control system
Authentication White listing, filtering on LAN and
L2 firewall authentication on WAN
WAN performance Latency, availability, packet loss,
supervision BER, 15 min/ 24h, continuous
supervision
WAN performance Dependability/ Security
as per IEC 60834-1
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"HITACHI Energy's IEC61850 Proxy Gateway

interface module TEGO1 enables innovative
line distance and differential protection
schemes beyond todays limits."
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