| Summary: | Eskom, South A6ica's largest supplier of electricity, uses a vast telecommunication
network to control and monitor all operations in remote locations such as substations. As
Eskom expanded the electricity network across South Africa, the telecommunications
network expanded as well. With changing technology in the telecommunications
industry, the telecontrol network of Eskom uses different protocols and communication
mediums.
This paper covers the study of these different protocols and mediums and the
interconnectivity between them. The purpose of the study is to enable the network
administrators of Eskom to easily time-synchronise all nodes on the network Even more
importantly, the study is done to better understand the setup of the Eskom telecontrol
network and the delays that occur between different protocols and using different
communication mediums. The study quantifies all delays that occur between nodes,
considering distance between nodes, switching between mediums and processing time
within systems. A network simulation tool is established that enables the network
administrator to simulate the network and find all delays that occur in the network before
the network is actually implemented. === Thesis (M.Ing. (Computer and Electronical Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.
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