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JPAX family

Packet-Switched Networking Solution for Teleprotection with Hybrid+ Transport Capabilities

JPAX family is a purpose-built communications solution specifically designed for utility operations, providing the required security and dependability through layers of redundancy. The platform is based on MPLS-TP (Multi-protocol Label Switching with Transport Profile) technology that maintains deterministic performance through packet based communications providing utilities with increased efficiency and ease of integration.

The JunglePAX platform employs an optimized version of MPLS-TP coupled with a SONET/SDH-transport layer to produce a converged communications platform to reliably transport 64 kbps, T1/E1 TDM and Ethernet services across an optical Wide-Area Network (WAN). With a flexible mix of WAN connectivity, access options, and with hardware redundancy on critical modules and control functions, the JunglePAX provide utilities a cost effective, single streamlined solution to better protect energy assets and improve system reliability.

Key Benefits

  • Improve service quality with a secure and dependable platform that provides reliable communications for utility applications within harsh industrial environments.
  • Maximize service uptime using specially designed hardware to ensure utility-grade performance through layers of redundancy. Address emerging applications by implementing a flexible and scalable solution to assist with network convergence where traffic and application mix change.
  • Improve system-wide manageability with integrated and application-driven software that simplifies network management. Increase control and promote information assurance with an advanced cybersecurity platform that employs defense-in-depth strategies.
What's New
GE Advantage
Overview
Hybrid+
Applications
Components
Tech Specs
Edge to Core

JunglePAX WAN ports supports standard MPLS

Both JunglePAX 10G WAN ports (1 & 2) now optionally support standard MPLS mode in addition to Hybrid mode as a user configurable option. Additionally, two out of four 1G WAN ports (4 & 6) now operate in standard MPLS mode (not user-configurable).

Use of standard MPLS mode allows for interoperability with foreign MPLS equipment and Ethernet microwave radio devices. Note that foreign MPLS and Ethernet radio devices generally don’t support the IEEE 802.3ae standard, which is used by JunglePAX as a basis for hybrid mode implementation. The 1G WAN ports 3 and 5 continue to support Hybrid mode only. Use of Hybrid mode continues to be advantageous in standalone JPAX network applications as it allows native, non-packetized TDM services and MPLS services to coexist on the same fiber.

The WAN ports in standard MPLS mode allows for tunneling JunglePAX NMS information through foreign packet-based devices/networks to ensure that all JunglePAX nodes are visible regardless of whether they are optically connected to each other or via foreign packet-based devices/network.

JunglePAX WAN ports support standard MPLS

JunglePAX WAN ports support standard MPLS

Native TDM and TDM over Packet: xTDM offers the best of both worlds

Introducing the xTDM Access Card for the JunglePAX Hybrid Packet & TDM platform that offers the best of both worlds. This add-on unit offers the flexibility to support both native TDM over Hybrid WAN ports as well as emulated T1/E1 signals over MPLS, making it extremely flexible for all customer applications.

This release also allows for establishing packetized point-to-point Nx64k services between xTDM-8A cards T, or T1E1-4A/CBUS-4A ports at the far end. Point-to-point Nx64k services between local xTDM-8A card and JIF-Share/CMUX/CDAX card residing at remote JMUX/TN1U/TN1Ue nodes are also supported via Evolution units.

t1/e1-cbus

The xTDM Access Card key features:

  • Up to 8 x bulk T1E1 services or up to 4 x CBUS ports (via future 90308-02 card)
  • Two ports per each RJ-45 connector, requiring the use of splitter cables to gain access to the even numbered ports
  • Supports transport of bulk T1/E1 over MPLS or SONET/SDH
  • Supports transport of Nx64kbps services over MPLS
  • Future supports for 1+1 redundant hardware configuration if two cards are installed in adjacent slots
  • Services can be established to existing T1E1-4A units

Evolution Module - Optically connecting JMUX and JPAX for simplified interoperability

GE’s new Evolution Module (B86900-01) enables migration to MPLS ring-by-ring or node-by-node AND offering an upgrade opportunity to modernize hardware while preserving highly dependable SONET/SDH delay performance for critical services through deployment of JunglePAX Hybrid Mode. Evolution and Hybrid work together to ensure ongoing security and dependability across both SONET/SDH and MPLS planes.

1 Gigabit of Ethernet data can now be passed over the same 1G+ fiber link as SONET VT1.5 or SDH TU-1’s to enable full interoperability between JMUX/TN1U and JPAX.

Evolution Modules

Tying Lentronics Multiplexer and JunglePAX networks together via dual-home Evolution Modules. Showing TDM services that bypass packetization to create end-to-end TDM services with SONET/SDH equivalent performance

Advanced Network Management System for JPAX

GE's EnerVista INSIGHT Advanced NMS solution employs Smart Tile technology, replacing the existing Telenium Traffic Manager, to assist users build MPLS Tunnels, SONET/SDH VTU’s and Services. This approach employs a wizard-based engine that walks users through each of the unique build processes using a combination of maps, graphical services tools and optimizers to quickly achieve their desired outcomes.

Schedule a demonstration today to see the new GE EnerVista INSIGHT version 8.8.

EnerVISTA 8.8 image

EnerVista 8.8

WAN Encryption for improved confidentiality

Encryption of all MPLS traffic carried over the WAN is now supported. This is a licensed feature, allowing users to encrypt individual fiber optic segments on any of the 12 WAN JunglePAX ports. After enabling Encryption on both sides of a WAN link, public/private keys will automatically roll based on the administrator’s configuration (30 min to 200 hrs), or keys can be manually renewed on each segment via the Web User Interface.

GE Advantage - Lentronics JPAX interactive app

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

JunglePAX Overview

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.

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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.

lentronics JPAX Hybrid Tech

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.

Modernizing optical

 

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:

Critical Operational Traffic (OT)

  • Teleprotection

Essential Operational Traffic (EOT)

  • SCADA
  • Maintenance & Emergency Voice
  • Asset health and status

Critical Information Traffic (CIT)

  • Surveillance & Intrusion detection
  • Metering

Essential Information Traffic (EIT)

  • Business service backhaul
  • Connecting field offices and mobile users with operational data

Application Example: Transmission Cable Fault

Transmission cable fault There is a transmission cable fault affecting the primary communication path

Fault detected Fault is detected by the protection relay

Tripping signal A tripping signal is sent to the JunglePAX platform

Fault detected and transmitted The JunglePAX in Substation 1 detects the primary transmission path fault

Teleprotection signal received The JunglePAX in Substation 2 detects the loss of the primary communications path and switches to the protected communications path within 3ms

Protection action Protection relay initiates the action to clear the fault

Application Example

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.

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Technical Specifications

MULTI-SERVICE PLATFORM
Purpose-built, modular in design with layers of redundancy
Hot swap of all redundant components without service interruptions
Utility hardened ensure security and dependability
Non-blocking architecture
WIDE AREA NETWORK (WAN) OPTIONS
Optical WAN Capacity 24Gbps
Number of 10G Optical WAN ports 2, SFP+, (up to 80km)
Number of 1G Optical WAN ports 4, SFP
NETWORK MANAGEMENT
Management Device management embedded Management System (eMS)
Network management Optional Advanced NMS
High availability mode 1+1 protected
Console port USB
Inbound / Outbound interfaces CLI, WebUI (HTTPS), SNMPv3 *, NetConf
PERFORMANCE
CORE Hardware protection 1+1, 20G bypass
Processors Dual, Dedicated separately for Data (DP) & Management (eM) plane
Transport Protocol MPLS-TP, RFC 5654
Encapsulation WAN-Interface Sublayer (WIS) (on/off)
Quality of service IEEE 802.1p/q with priority queues and priority scheduling
Node transit delay < 30 μs
Switching Capacity 66G
Fabric Redundant
Backplane Passive Yes
Client services TDM and Ethernet TDM: Emulated TDM over PSN (CESoPSN,SAToP)
Ethernet: E-Line, E-Tree and E-LAN Ethernet Virtual Connections, configurable max frame size (up to 12,000 bytes), 32k MAC addresses per node
Packetizer T1/E1/CBUS TDM ports 8
Synchronization WAN Synchronization method SyncE
Internal Modes Headend with SSM, Freerun
Accuracy 4.6ppm
External modes 2KHz, 10MHz, 1PPS, GPS *
Quality SSM, ESMC *
Timing Timing Protocols NTP, IEEE 1588v2 (telecom and power) *
Accuracy 1us, Grandmaster (1588v2) *
OAM Fault Detection LDI, 256 HW-assisted BFD per CORE
Protection Switching 1+1: <3 ms on fiber break, ~0 ms on CORE module extraction
1:1: <16 ms on fiber break, <50 ms on CORE module extraction
SECURITY
Security EtherWAN encryption engine 6 independent encryption engines, Optionally enabled on each WAN port *
Encryption AES 256
Authentication SHA 256
Key distribution Public/Private, User configurable rolling key frequency *
Access Control Role-based
User Authentication RADIUS
Accounting Syslog (local)
Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2
CERTIFICATION
Industry Compliance SAFETY, UL, EU, CSA UL 60950-1, ETSI EN/IEC 60950-1, CAN/CSA C22.2, RCM (Australia)
Conducted and Radiated emissions FCC Part 15B, CISPR/EN 55022, EN 300 386, VCCI, AS/NZS CISPR 22, CNS13438, and KN 22
Immunity EN 55024, EN 300 386 and KN 24
Power Substation IEEE 1613 (no cooling fans)
Hardening IEEE 1613 (no cooling fans), SWC, EMI, RFI & ESD
Environmental Operating Temperature -20°C to + 60°C
Storage Temperature -40°C to +70°C, IEC60068-2
Humidity, %RH 5 - 95%, non-condensing
Altitude 3000m
Earthquake NEBS ITL GR-63-CORE Issue 4*
RoHS RoHS / WEEE
POWER MANAGEMENT
Power DC 48/130 VDC (ungrounded or +ve grounded), isolated inputs, hot swappable
AC 120/240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, hot swappable
Redundant Yes
Consumption 160W, Overcurrent protection at 180W per power supply
ACCESS CARD INTERFACES
Access Card interfaces Number of Access slots 16
Hot swappable Yes
4 x GigE slots 3
EF-4A 4 x 1G/FE fiber ports, SFP, per-port configurable native VLAN ID
EC-4A 4 x 10/100/1000 Mbps copper ports, RJ-45, per-port configurable native VLAN ID
GigE slots 6, using EF-4A and EC-4A units
TDM slots 4 (16 if xTDM-8A cards are used)
T1E1-4A 4 x T1/E1 ports, RJ-48c, G.704, G.706, G.826
E1 formats: PCM30/CAS, PCM31/CCS, Unframed
CBUS-4A card 4x CBUS ports, RJ-48C
xTDM-8A 8 x T1/E1 ports (G.704, G.706, G.826) or 4 x CBUS ports, RJ-48c *
64kbps slots 10
C3794-1A 1 x IEEE C37.94, mmf/smf, N x 64 kbps (N=1…12), SFP, LC connector
C3794-4A 4 x IEEE C37.94, mmf/smf, N x 64 kbps (N=1…12), SFP, LC connector
DR-1A 1 x RS-232/V.24/V.28 (up to 38.4 kbps) or 1x G.703 64 kbps codirectional
DR-4A 4 x RS-232/V.24/V.28 (up to 38.4 kbps) or 1 x G.703 64 kbps codirectional
G703D-4A 4 x G.703 64 kbps codirectional
DTT-2A 2 x DTT Tx/Rx @48VDC. 130VDC, 250VDC
SIZE
Size Shelf 19” (48.26cm) W ; 16.32” (41.45 cm) L ; 3.49" (8.86cm) H
Spacing 1RU above and below for circulation
ACCESS CARD COMPATIBILITY
Lentronics Access cards compatible with JPAX via the CBUS port
  • DTT Tx/Rx
  • RS232 / V.24
  • Nx64E (electrical, V.35) and Nx64F (Fiber, C37.94)
  • G.703
  • OCUDP
  • 2W FXS/O, E&M
  • 4W TO, E&M
  • RS422 / V.11
  • Contact IO
  • CDR/HCB-SPD-CPD-RDHL

* 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.

edge to core data process