Abbreviations - ABB COM600 User Manual

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1.7.
Station Automation COM600 3.4
DNP 3.0 LAN/WAN Slave (OPC) User's Manual
Term
SPA
SPA device
Substation Configuration Lan-
guage; SCL

Abbreviations

The following is a list of abbreviations associated with COM600 that you should be
familiar with. See also 1.6, Terminology.
Abbreviation Description
AE Alarms and Events
ASDU Application Service Data Unit
BRCB Buffered Report Control Block
DA Data Access
DMCD Data Message Code Definition
DO Data Object
GW Gateway, component connecting two communication networks together
HMI Human Machine Interface
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IED Intelligent Electronic Device
LAG LON Application Guideline for substation automation
LAN Local Area Network
LD Logical Device
LMK LonMark interoperable device communicating in LonWorks network. In
this document, the term is used for devices that do not support the ABB
LON/LAG communication.
LN Logical Node
LSG LON SPA Gateway
NCC Network Control Center
NUC Norwegian User Convention
NV Network Variable
OLE Object Linking and Embedding
OPC OLE for Process Control
P&C Protection & Control
Description
ABB proprietary communication protocol used in substation
automation.
Protection and/or Control Product supporting the SPA protocol
version 2.5 or earlier.
XML-based description language for configurations of electrical
substation IEDs. Defined in IEC 61850 standard.
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