Efficiency of Optical Fiber Communication for Dissemination of Information within the Power System Network.

Abstract

Within the power system network, consistent domestic communications are essential to ensure safety, security and control of the power system equipments. Such communications customarily have been provided by methods such as power line carrier and microwave radio systems but are more recently being supplemented or replaced by Fiber optics. This paper focuses on the practical steps to review and evaluation on the effectiveness of using Fiber optic cable technology in the domestic communication of power system network. With the advent of information and communication technology, it has become obvious that Fiber optic is replacing this crude method of data communication. It offers a unique solution to ever increasing demand for bandwidth because of its remarkably high capacity for carrying data, and guaranteed consistency of signal transmission over the entire transmission network. A pair of Fiber has the ability to carry over eight thousand simultaneously voice channels and has high immunity to electromagnetic interference. All these advantages made it extra-ordinarily useful in data communication like Internet, multimedia and scada applications. Over short or long distances, video, audio and data signals arrive at their destination in the same perfect quality as they originated and also assures security of data being transmitted.