Building a Multi-Vendor, Software-Defined Substation: Lessons From Red Hat’s VPAC...
summary
Red Hat builds a single-server, cPATH-aligned vPAC demonstrator running ABB VM protection and a containerized U2 Energy vHMI/vRTU side-by-side on isolated CPU cores; hardware-in-the-loop Typhoon HIL simulates a 30-bay, 110/20 kV substation. Real-time tuning and PTP deliver consistent cyclic latencies (max 28 µs) and repeatable trip measurements around 6.9 ms trip time. Automation uses Ansible and Python APIs; long runs show no host packet loss but a few missed sample-value packets drive ongoing verification of multi-vendor limits.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:15Why software-defined substations
- 5:02OT requirements and demo setup
- 11:24Automating the test process
- 15:38System architecture details
- 19:56Performance measurements and results
- 26:20Multi-vendor integration demo
- 27:42Future plans and next steps
- 28:52Security certification announcement
- 29:16Q&A session
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