Research on the Convergence Trend of Power Communication Network

Abstract

With the development of communication technology, the communication network present many characteristics, such as unified standard, flatten structure and diversified services. As a special form of communication network, power communication network has higher requirements on intelligent, stability, reliability and real-time. In order to better support smart grid, we analyzed the current communication network at first. On this basis, the converged power communication network is proposed from two aspects: communication technology and network architecture. Moreover, typical technology route and network architecture is also given in the convergence background. The conclusion is that the converged network can solve problems of the current independent network, and it is an inevitable evolution direction of the future.