Overview

RuggedCom products have always met or exceeded a wide range of industry standards including IEC 61850 and
IEEE 1613 for electric utility applications. We have even designated a RuggedRated™ certification to promote the fact that
all our products undergo extensive in-house testing to ensure they meet these rigorous industry standards. Based on our
good reputation, domain expertise in the industry, and by having the world’s largest installed base of substation hardened
communications equipment, customers have had the confidence to rely solely on our internal tests. But with so many
vendors now claiming compliance, we at RuggedCom felt it necessary to obtain independent 3rd party test reports for some
of the industry’s key standards. RuggedCom is the first in the industry to obtain such testing. This information flyer
summarizes some of the key test results performed by KEMA, a worldwide authority on product testing, certification, and
consulting to the electric utility industry.

Environmental Tests
Test Standard Section Result

IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.2

Cold test (-40°C)
IEC 60870-2-2 Class C3 (3K7, 1K5) and Ct2 (2K4)
Operating, storage & PASSED
IEC 60068-2-1
transportation
IEEE 1613 Clause 4.1.1, 4.1.2

Dry heat test (+85°C) IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.2

Operating, storage & IEC 60870-2-2 Class Cx (+85°C) and Dt1 (2K5)
PASSED
transportation IEC 60068-2-2
IEEE 1613 Clause 4.1.1, 4.1.2

IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.3

IEC 60870-2-2 Class C1 (3K5, 1K3)
Damp heat cyclic PASSED
IEC 60068-2-30
IEEE 1613 Clause 4.1.3

IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.5

Stationary vibration IEC 60870-2-2 Class Cm (3M6, 4M6) PASSED
IEC 60068-2-6

IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.5

Shock IEC 60870-2-2 Class Cm (3M6, 4M6) PASSED
IEC 60068-2-27

IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.5

Free fall IEC 60870-2-2 Class Cm (3M6, 4M6) PASSED
IEC 60068-2-32

IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.5

Static load PASSED
IEC 60870-2-2 Class Cm (3M6, 4M6)

IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.7

IEC 61000-6-2
Electromagnetic Immunity PASSED
IEC 61000-6-5
IEEE 1613 Clause 5.1, 7, 8, 9

Electromagnetic Emission IEC 61850-3 Clause 5.8 PASSED

IEC 60255-5
Dielectric strength PASSED
IEEE 1613 Clause 6.2, 6.3

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IEC 61850 Functional Tests
Test Summary

Test Group Result

VLAN Handling PASSED

Priority Tagging PASSED

PASSED
Rapid Spanning Tree Recovery time 4-10 ms.
No Packet Loss

Test Descriptions

VLAN Handling
Verify the multicasting of VLAN tagged IEC 61850 GOOSE messages. All VLAN tests performed PASSED.

Priority Tagging
Verify that higher priority messages will prevail over lower priority messages. The expectation is that on a network with mixed
priority packages, no high priority packages will be dropped. All priority tagging tests PASSED.

Rapid Spanning Tree Performance

Verify the recovery of a single communication failure and to measure the recovery time and the number of packet drops.
This may depend on: Packet size, Network load; Connecting / Disconnecting the backbone ring. GOOSE messages are sent
on a 1 millisecond period with the backbone ring disconnected / connected at multiple locations.

Based on the test results it was concluded that:

.During a communication failure no GOOSE messages are lost

.Disconnecting and connecting the backbone ring has no effect on message loss

.The network load has an effect on recovery time

.The size of the GOOSE messages has little effect on recovery time

RuggedCom uses the following formulas to calculate the Worst Case Recovery Time and the Typical Case Recovery Time
(where N is the number of switches):

.Worst Case Recovery Time = 20ms + ( 5 * N )

.Typical Case Recovery Time = 5ms * N

During the tests, the recovery time was found to be much less than the Typical Case Recovery Time.

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