A tester for the new digital grid

Zeus is a tester designed to install and maintain the communications in the power industry. It supports legacy and new generation interfaces in order to verify Ethernet / IP, PTP, SyncE, ToD, IRIG-B, T1 / E1, C37.94, RS-232, G703 and protocols such as GOOSE, SV or MMS, therefore you will get a perfect vision and control of your infrastructures improving protection and data acquisition.

In substation automation many resources require accurate synchronization ranging from microseconds to milliseconds:

• Applications that use SV / GOOSE /PRP eed to minimize latency.
• Data acquisition at IED, RTU and MU.
• SCADA and the MMS protocol.
• Line protection schemes.
• Events recording.
• Synchro-phasors deployed across the WAN to monitor the power grid.

Zeus has a complete set of features for time commissioning by means of measurements, analysis and protocol emulations of PTP, IRIG-B, GPS, SyncE, T1/E1, 1PPS

Platform

Multiport Interfaces

A:B ports: 2 x SFP (100MbE, 1GbE)

A:B ports: 2 x RJ45 (10MbE, 100MbE, 1GbE)

C:D ports: Balanced 2 x RJ45 (T1/E1)

C:D ports: Unbalanced 2 x BNC (T1/E1)

GNSS Port: SMA female (GNSS)

PPS Ports: 3 x SMB female (Time refs.)

Hot swappable modules

C37.94

Datacom DTE/DCE: V.11/X.24, V.24/V.28, V.24/V.35, V.24/V.11 (V.36/RS449)

VF Port

Codirectional - G703

E1/T1

Optical to Electrical

Operation / Results

Graphic and tabular wander results

Navigation: by touch screen, keyboard, mouse

Remote Control: by VNC

Storage capacity: one week of results

Export: results in pdf/txt/csv through USB interface or SD card

Report export to remote host through Ethernet / IP

Ergonomics

Size: 260 x 160 x 63 mm

Weight: 1.9 kg

Light and easy to carry in a small bag

Start: Manual / Timed with optional password

Batteries

Two pack of Lipo batteries always included

Large duration that also depends on operation, conditions, aging, etc.

Time / Clocks

Internal Clocks

Default better than ±2.0 ppm

OCXO better than ±50 ppb

Rubidium better than ±5.0e-11 (GNSS disciplined, locking time < 4 hours)

Internal Rubidium clock

Free―run (No GPS)

Freq. accuracy (7.5 minutes warm up): ± e-9

Freq. accuracy on shipment (24 h. warm up): ±5.0e-11

Aging (1 day): 2.5e-11

Aging (1 year): 6.0e-10

GNSS locked

Phase error (RMS), single-band GNSS: ±15 ns

Phase error (RMS), multi-band GNSS: ±5 ns

Hold - over

Phase within ±100 ns: 10 hours

Phase within ±500 ns: 30 hours

Phase within ±1.0 μs: 60 hours

Phase within ±10.0 μs: 12 days

Clock References

Built-in GNSS receiver

SyncE

IRIG-B

T1/E1

10 MHz

5 MHz

2048 kHz

1544 kHz

1PPS

1PP2S

ToD

IEC-61850 testing

PRP testing

Emulates one or multiple PRP endpoints, supporting both Dually Attached Nodes (DANs) and Singly Attached Nodes (SANs).

Generates and receives multi-stream traffic in PRP environments

Performance metrics such as delay, frame loss, and throughput

PRP statistics, PRP node detection, redundancy checks, frame counters

Generation and analysis of delay skew between LAN A and LAN B traffic

Capture, Event Logger to decode and report PRP-specific fields and frames

Enables protocol testing over PRP, for SV, GOOSE, and PTP

PTP over PRP master/slave emulation, TE on LAN A/B, Ports skew

GOOSE testing

Decodes and analyzes GOOSE messages

GOOSE protocol scan with GoCBName, GoID, DatSet

GOOSE frame count for the active flow and all flows

Latency: current, avrg., min., max., range and std. dev.

SV testing

Decodes and analyzes SV messages

SV protocol scan with svID population

SV frame count for the active flow and all flows

Sample count and sampling rate measurement

Latency: current, avrg., min., max., range and std. dev.

PTP testing

PTP profiles: Telecom and Power

Encapsulations: Ethernet and UDP

Clock emulation: Master / Slave, Unicast/Multicast, 128 packet/s

PDV capture, protocol analysis and correction field support

Ethernet PTP Frequency testing

Floor Delay Population (G.8260): FPC, FPR, FPP

Wander: Analysis and Generation TIE, MTIE and TDEV (in real time)

Ethernet PTP Phase testing

Measured at GbE and 1pps interfaces

Time Error (TE): Maximum (max |TE|), Dynamic (dTE), Constant (cTE)

1 pps testing

Wander: TIE, MTIE, TDEV

Time Error (TE): Maximum (max |TE|)

C37.94 testing

Operation Modes

Unframed or framed operation

Clock: Recovered or Internal

End point or terminal mode

Results with PASS/FAIL indications

Analysis & Generation

Bit Rate generation in steps of nx64 kb/s up to 768 kb/s

BER test

ITU-T G.821 performance test

Event Detection / Insertion

Defects: LOS, AIS, LOF, RDI, LSS, All 0, All 1

Anomalies: FAS, TSE, Slip

Delay & Freq. Tests

Round Trip Delay (ms)

One-way Delay synchronized with GPS

Frequency (Hz)

Frequency Deviation (ppm), max. Deviation

Jitter and Wander analysis

Peak to peak, RMS, jitter, hits detection and count

MTIE and TDEV resolution: 100 ps

Pass / Fail based on standard masks

C37.94 SFPs

Multi-mode: SFP 850 nm, 2048 kbit/s, 1500 meters

Single-mode; SFP 1310 nm, 2048 kbit/s, 10 km

Optical Power Meter

Latency & Delay measurements

E1, T1, GbE, C37.94

Round-trip delay (RTD)

One-way delay (OWD) GNSS assisted

Ethernet PTP

Floor delay packet population, ratio/percentage/count

Path delay asymmetry

End-to-end / peer-to-peer path delay mechanisms

Master-to-slave / Slave-to-grandmaster latency

PTP packet delay variation test

Time Error (TE): Maximum (max |TE|), Dynamic (dTE), Constant (cTE)

Service Disruption Time

Interfaces: E1, T1, IEEE C37.94, Datacom, Co/Contra-directional

Resolution: 100 us

Ethernet/IP Testing

8 x independent streams

Streams: may use individual sour/dest. addresses and bandwidth profile

Internet Protocol: IPv4 / IPv6 support

Frames: DIX, VLAN, Q-in-Q, CoS (DSCP/PCP), MPLS, and Jumbo

IP with UDP or arbitrary protocol

DHCP for source IP and ARP for destination MAC

Counts et statistics

Frame counts, IP traffic statistics, and bit rate

Top ten VLAN, MAC, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

QoS: Latency, Delay variation, Loss ratio, SES, Availability, OOS, Duplicated

BER Tests et Patterns

Traffic generation: Continuous, Burst, Ramp, Random

PHY layer: RPAT, JPAT, SPAT, HFPAT, LFPAT, MFPAT, LCRPAT, SCRPAT

Layer 2/4 PRBS: 2e11-1, 2e15-1, 2e20-1, 2e23-1, 2e31-1

Layer 2/4 PRBS: all inverted versions

Symmetric/Asymmetric RFC-2544

Throughput

Latency

Loss

Back-to-back

System Recovery

Symmetric/Asymmetric eSAM (Y.1564)

Latency, Delay Variation, Loss, and Availability

Eight / four services (colour/not colour)

CIR, EIR, max, Througput

Loopback

L1 - L4 loopback mode

Traffic filtering by

sour/dest MAC/IP/Port

VLAN, CoS (DSCP/PCP)

Protocol

PDH / T.Carrier testing

Interfaces

T1 (ANSI T1.102)

E1 (ITU-T G.703)

E0/Co-Directional (ITU-T G.703)

Modes

Terminal

Monitor

High Impedance

Pass-through

T1: Framed SF and ESF and unframed Generation/Analysis

E1: Framed PCM-30 / 31 with/without CRC and Unframed signals

T1/E1: Display and Edition: all fields, CAS, Pulse Masks, Events

Channel map: Busy/Free, External Drop/Insert of 64 kb/s co-dir or datacom

Measurements

BER

Line/Freq

Errors/Alarms

G.821, G.826, M.2100

VF: tone generation/analysis

Attenuation, Freq, Freq. deviation, Level, Peak codes

Synchronization

Jitter analysis: Peak to peak, RMS, hits, count (0.1 to 100 kHz range)

Wander: Analysis/Generation and masks (1 μHz to 10 Hz range)

Wander Analysis/Generation in 10 MHz, 2048 kHz, 1544 kHz, 1pps

Cable features

Cable tests

Wiremap

Skew

Cable Diagnostics

Distance to fault

Power over Ethernet

PoE and PoE+

Volts / Current

Datacom testing

Modes

Terminal emulation

Bi-directional Monitoring

Datacom / E1 mux

Display and Edition

DTE/DCE control circuit

Timing circuits

Binary rates

Tests

BER, Frequency

Insertion/Analysis of events

G.821