This presentation will detail GE’s advanced substation G500 gateway and its role as a high-capacity, secure, future-proof platform that was designed to simplify deployment, operation, and maintenance of automation systems in cyber secure environments. It will also highlight the advantages of the G500's multifunction capabilities, e.g. collection and reporting of operational and non-operation data, custom automation, HMI, time synchronization, redundancy, secure remote access, etc.