THE SOLUTION Recognising the need for a host of compliant,hardened Industrial ethernet switches for the communica- tions infrastructure, Factory Systemes turned to GarrettCom Europe. Factory Systemes specified a range of GarrettCom products, including Mag- num 6K16 managed switches, P62F and ES42 unmanaged edge switches, and CS14 industrial converter switches. All were chosen due to the high con- figuration flexibility and high reliability, as wit- nessed by compliance with both the IEC 61850 and IEEE 1613 standards. Rigorous testing has ensured that these components fulfill the criteria deemed necessary by the power utilities industry to support mission-critical applications that demand high reliability, electromagnetic radia- tion immunity, and sustained operation under temperature stress among other tough condi- tions. About AREVA NP Over the past 30 years, AREVA NP has becomethe world’s leading designer and builder of nuclear power plants and supplier of fuel, mainte- nance and modernization services. AREVA NP supplies nuclear islands, and nuclear steam supply systems, engineering services for the moderniza- tion of existing plants, and instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants. The company has built almost 100 of the 303 light water nuclear reactors in service worldwide. These reactors represent a total installed power of nearly 100,000 MWe, or 31 percent of the world’s installed capacity using this technology.

GarrettCom Switches at the Nuclear Core

The wider goal was to facilitate the implementa- tion of systems which took advantage of the latest network products to make more control information available, and to make it easy to transfer that information seamlessly and reliably to exactly where it was needed. Further, the standard also enforces stringent environmental performance. All automation and networking components used in electrical utilities must becompliant. THE RESULTS IEC 61850-compliant Ethernet switches from GarrettCom Europe are playing a key role in the reprocessing of sodium waste from the decommis- sioning of France’s former flagship Super Phénix nuclear reactor. Building the new plant at Creys Malville to process the sodium might seem like a long drawn-out approach, but the treatment process itself has the huge benefit of being fast. Estimates show that all of the radioactive sodium could be treated and cemented within two years, producing around 70,000 tons of concrete. This timescale will play a big part in reducing the overall build-out of the plant to 25 years. With this in mind, Factory Systemes de- signed and installed the Magnum 6K16 managed switches at the corporate level, and the Magnum ES42, CS14 and P62F switches at the SCADA and PLC level. Magnum 6K switches have powerful, highly secureand robust remote access management capabilities that Framatome use to monitor the network and protect its resources. GarrettCom’s MNS-6K software runs on all Magnum 6K-Series Managed switches with Secure Web Management (SWM), providing encrypted authentication and access over Ethernet from remote locations.The use of RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol)technology provides redundancy for recovery from network faults, and the rigorous testing GarrettCom products are put through fulfills the criteria deemed necessary by the power utilities industry to support mission-critical applications that demand high reliability, electromagnetic radiation immunity, and sustained operation under temperature stress among other tough conditions. For more information on GarrettCom and itsproducts, visit www.garrettcom.com orwww.garrettcom.co.uk.
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