Digital Substation is an engineering publication focused on IEC 61850 automation, protection systems, and digital grid intelligence.
Real time simulation of power systems and related secondary equipment is a well recognised and required method in development of power systems, optimisation of their operation, performance studies, education, etc. The technology of simulators has been...
TEKVEL company presented a free beta version of JAVA-based IEC 61850-9-2LE software simulator. Digital Substation immediately downloaded the application and offers an express overview of the proposed software.
In any packet transmitted over Ethernet there are two MAC-addresses present: one is a source MAC-address and another is a destination MAC-address. When forwarding data, Ethernet-switches use this important data. So what is a MAC-address? What are the differences between unicast, multicast and broadcast destination MAC-addresses? What destination MAC-addresses are common for IEC 61850 standard protocols? Let's have a more detailed look on this.