GE T1000 User manual

GE
Grid Solutions
GE Reason Switches
Industrial Managed Ethernet Switches
Technical Manual
T1000 Platform Hardware Version: A
T1000 Platform Software Version: 03
S20 Platform Hardware Version: B
S20 Platform Software Version: 06
Publication Reference: REASON-SWITCHES-TM-EN-3.3
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction 13
1Foreword 13
1.1 Target Audience 13
1.2 Nomenclature 14
1.3 Acronyms and Abbreviations 14
2Product Scope 18
3Unpacking 19
4Available models 20
4.1 T1000 20
4.2 S2020 20
4.3 S2024G 20
5Key Features 21
6Compliance 23
6.1 Standard Compliance 23
6.2 EMC Compliance 23
6.3 Product Safety 23
6.4 R&TTE Compliance 24
7Ordering Options 25
7.1 S2020 25
7.2 S2024G 26
7.3 T1000 27
Chapter 2: Safety Information 29
1Health and Safety 29
2Symbols 31
3Installation, Commissioning and Servicing 32
3.1 Lifting Hazards 32
3.2 Electrical Hazards 32
3.3 Fusing Requirements 34
3.4 Equipment Connections 34
3.5 Pre-energisation Checklist 36
3.6 Peripheral Circuitry 37
3.7 Upgrading/Servicing 37
4Decommissioning and Disposal 38
Chapter 3: Hardware Design 39
1Hardware Composition 39
2Mechanical Implementation 40
3Hardware Architecture 42
4Communication port connections 43
Chapter 4: Functions 44
1System management 44

1.1 System Information 44
1.2 IP Information 45
1.3 NTP Synchronization 45
1.4 Time zone 46
1.5 Log 46
2Ports 48
3Security 50
3.1 SNMP Protocol 51
4Aggregation 53
5Loop Protection 56
5.1 Loop Fundamentals 56
5.2 Loop Protection 57
6Spanning Tree Protocol 59
6.1 Spanning Fundamentals 59
6.2 STP Protocol 62
6.3 RSTP Protocol 64
6.4 MSTP Protocol 67
6.5 UltraRSTP 69
7IPMC 71
7.1 IP Multicast (IPMC) 71
7.2 IGMP Snooping 72
7.3 MLD Snooping 74
8MAC Table 76
9Virtual LAN 79
9.1 Legacy LAN Technology 79
9.2 Virtual LAN Basics 80
9.3 LAN in Modern Power System Communication 83
9.4 IEEE 802.1Q Switch operation concepts 84
9.5 Reason Switches Operation 86
10 Quality of Service (QoS 89
10.1 Quality of Service Basics 89
10.2 Class-of-Service (CoS) Bits QoS 91
10.3 Differentiated Service Code Point (DSCP) 94
10.4 GE Reason Switches QoS Capabilities 96
11 Mirroring 101
12 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) 104
12.1 Timing Requirements for Power System Applications 104
12.2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Functional 105
12.3 PTP in GE Reason Switches 108
Chapter 5: Interfaces 110
1Signalizing Leds 110
2Reboot Button (Only for T1000) 112
3Hardware Reset 113
4Dry-Contact Relay 114
5Communication Interfaces 115

6Communication Protocols 116
6.1 HTTP/HTTPS 116
6.2 SSH 116
6.3 Telnet 119
Chapter 6: Operation 122
1Energizing 122
2Local Operation –USB Interface 123
3Remote Operation –Ethernet Interface 126
Chapter 7: Configuration 129
1Configuration overview 129
2System Management Setting 130
2.1 System Management Setting 130
2.2 IP Services 130
2.3 NTP Synchronization 134
2.4 Time Configuration 134
2.5 Log 136
3Port Setting 138
4Security Settings 142
4.1 General Security Settings 142
4.2 SNMP Setting 149
5Aggregation Settings 157
5.1 Static Aggregation Setting 157
5.2 LACP Settings 158
6Loop Protection Settings 160
7Spanning Tree Settings 162
8IPMC Setting 171
8.1 IPMC Profile 171
8.2 IPMC 174
9MAC table Settings 183
10 VLAN Settings 185
11 QoS Settings 190
11.1 Port Classification 190
11.2 Port Policing 192
11.3 Queue Policing 193
11.4 Port Scheduler 193
11.5 Port Shaping 196
11.6 Port Tag Remarking 198
11.7 Port DSCP 200
11.8 DSCP-Based QoS 201
11.9 DSCP Translation 202
11.10 DSCP Classification 202
11.11 QoS Control List 203
11.12 Storm Policing 209
11.13 WRED 211

12 Mirroring Settings 213
13 PTP Settings 217
14 Application Examples 221
14.1 Configuring VLANs in a Digital Substation Network 221
14.2 RSTP Configuring in a Ring Network Topology 229
14.3 PTP Transparent Clock 231
Chapter 8: Monitoring 235
1System Management 235
2Ports 238
3Security 241
4Aggregation 244
5Loop Protection 246
6Spanning Tree 247
7IPMC 250
8MAC Table 253
9VLAN 254
10 PTP 255
Chapter 9: Installation 257
1Functional Overview 257
1.1 Highlights 257
1.2 Human Machine Interface Descriptions 261
2Mounting 263
2.1 Rack Mounting 263
2.2 Panel and Rail Mouting 264
3Power Connections 266
4Communications Ports 267
4.1 Electrical Ethernet Ports (RJ45) 267
4.2 Fixed Fiber Optics Transceiver (FDDI) 267
4.3 SFP Pluggable Transceiver 268
5Dry Contact Alarm (Failsafe) 270
6Preventive Maintenance Actions 271
6.1 Preventive Actions 271
Chapter 10: Maintenance and Troubleshooting 275
1Network Diagnostics 275
1.1 Ping 275
1.2 Link OAM 276
1.3 Ping6 276
1.4 VeriPHY 278
2Software Restart 280
3Software Management 281
4Configuration 283
5Troubleshooting 286
6Equipment Return 290

7Instructions for Equipment Repair Service 291
Chapter 11: Technical Specifications 292
1Power Supply 292
2Failsafe Relay 293
3Networking Standards Supported 294
4RJ45 Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbps) Port 295
5Optical Transceivers (100/1000 Mbps) 296
6Operating Environment 297
7T1000 Dimensions 298
8S2020 and S202G Dimensions 299
9Ingress Protection 300
9.1 Front Mounting 300
9.2 Rear Mounting 300
9.3 Pollution Degree 300
10 Insulation, EMI and Environmental Tests 301
10.1 Insulation Tests 301
10.2 Type Tests 301

Table of Figures
Figure 1: T1000 Communication modules 39
Figure 2: T1000 Switch 40
Figure 3: S2020 Switch 40
Figure 4: S2024G Switch 41
Figure 5: Hardware architecture overview 42
Figure 6: NTP Time Protocol Mechanism 46
Figure 7: NTP Syslog Message Basics 47
Figure 8: Ports at a Transparent Bridge 48
Figure 9: Example of the SNMP management architecture 52
Figure 10: Comparison between common and aggregated links speed 53
Figure 11: Link failure behavior of an aggregated link 54
Figure 12: Load balancing in aggregated links 55
Figure 13: Bridge Loop 56
Figure 14: Usage situations for Loop Protection 57
Figure 15: BPDU Packet 59
Figure 16: Ring topology LAN and possible paths for data traffic from IED A to IED B 60
Figure 17: Example of a loop-topology showing bridge 61
Figure 18: Logical topology after the Spanning Tree protocol was executed 61
Figure 19: Port states in the Spanning Tree Protocol 62
Figure 20: STP protocol mechanism and maximum port changing time 63
Figure 21: Port states when STP protocol is used in a ring physical topology 64
Figure 22: Failure on the designated link of the Spanning tree 64
Figure 23: Reconfigured topology after a designated link failure 64
Figure 24: RSTP protocol mechanism 65
Figure 25: RSTP port status in a loop topology 66
Figure 26: RSTP edge and truck ports 66
Figure 27: BPDU flag field at RSTP protocol 67
Figure 28: MSTP regions and legacy RSTP LAN connection 68
Figure 29: CIST roots an MSTP regions and legacy RSTP LAN 69
Figure 30: MSTP regions behavior using RSTP protocol 69
Figure 31: RSTP recovery table 70
Figure 32: Network fault recovery using GE Reason Switches 70

Figure 33: Unicast and Broadcast communication 71
Figure 34: Multicast communication 72
Figure 35: IGMP protocol mechanism 73
Figure 36: IGMP Snooping at a given LAN 74
Figure 37: Ethernet frame 76
Figure 38: Address a table at a given Switch 77
Figure 39: Forwarding traffic in an Ethernet switch 77
Figure 40: LAN access restriction with MAC address configuration 78
Figure 41: Different LAN from different departments 79
Figure 42: addition of new hosts to the legacy VALN-unaware equipment 80
Figure 43: Physical topology of the addition of new hosts with VLAN-aware equipment
81
Figure 44: Logical topology of the addition of new hosts with VLAN-aware equipment
81
Figure 45: 802.1Q Ethernet frame 82
Figure 46: Typical topology in power system communication environment 84
Figure 47: Logical topology of typical power system communication environment 84
Figure 48: Traffic flow inside an 802.1Q switch 85
Figure 49: Traffic in an oversized 90
Figure 50: Traffic of incoming data higher than the port at the switch can process 90
Figure 51: Network with prioritization of traffic 91
Figure 52: CoS bits inside and 802.1Q frame 92
Figure 53: Traffic type acronyms, show in section l.4 on the IEEE 802.1Q 92
Figure 54: CoS classification as shown in IEC 61850-90-4 Technical Report, section
D.2.6 93
Figure 55: IP Header frame and Differentiated Service Code Point explained 94
Figure 56: Mapping of applications for service levels, shown in section D.2.7 of the IEC
61850-90-4 Technical Report 94
Figure 57: List of DSCP code point field values, shown in section D.2.9 of the IEC 61850-
90-4 Technical Report 95
Figure 58: Example of DSCP to CoS mapping, shown in section D.2.9 of the IEC61850-
90-4 Technical Report 95
Figure 59: CoS queues and remarking functions 97
Figure 60: DSCP queues and translation functions 98
Figure 61: Port Mirroring Being Executed by a Switch 101
Figure 62: Port Mirroring in One Switch 102

Figure 63: Port Mirroring in Many Switch 102
Figure 64: Data Monitor Flow Network 103
Figure 65: Synchronization classes, shown at IEC 61850-90-4 Technical Report, section
14.1 105
Figure 66: PTP network 106
Figure 67: PTP protocol mechanism 107
Figure 68: HMI LED matrix of T1000 Switches 110
Figure 69: HMI LED matrix of S2020 and S2024G Switches 111
Figure 70: Reboot button 112
Figure 71: Failsafe dry-contact relay 114
Figure 72: Example of HTTP or HTTPS first screen at a given web browser 116
Figure 73: Main menu at the SSH interface 118
Figure 74: Main menu at the Telnet interface 121
Figure 75: T1000 Power Supply Connector 122
Figure 76: S2020 and S2024G Power Supply Connector 122
Figure 77: B-type USB connector at Reason Switches 123
Figure 78: Main menu at the Telnet interface 125
Figure 79: Ethernet RJ45 connector at Reason Switches 126
Figure 80: Example of HTTP or HTTPS first screen at a given web browser 127
Figure 81: DPL level usage 212
Figure 82: Topology to be configured in a VLAN environment 221
Figure 83: Topology to be configured in a RSTP environment 230
Figure 84: Topology to be configured in a PTP environment 231
Figure 85: RJ45 port 262
Figure 86: Front mounting: Cabinet orientation for rack mounting 263
Figure 87: Rear mounting: Cabinet orientation for rack mounting 264
Figure 88: Mounting sites for rack adapters 264
Figure 89: Panel / DIN Rail front mounting diagram 265
Figure 90: T1000 (left) and S2020/S2024G (right) Power Supply Connector 266
Figure 91: RJ45 Ethernet Port 267
Figure 92: FDDI transceiver 268
Figure 93: SFP transceiver 268
Figure 94: Removal direction of the SFP transceiver 269
Figure 95: Insertion module of the SFP transceiver 269
Figure 96: Failsafe Relay 270