Read about Serviceability without Downtime as a System Property!
As substations transition toward software-defined architectures, the role of computing platforms inside the substation changes fundamentally.
Protection, automation & control, and cybersecurity functions are no longer bound to dedicated hardware devices. Instead, they run as virtualized workloads on shared platforms - continuously, in parallel, and under sustained load.
In this context, availability becomes the defining requirement.
Downtime is no longer limited to a single function or device.
When multiple critical workloads share one platform, every maintenance activity, component failure, or service intervention must be planned with extreme care.
This is why serviceability without downtime is a core design principle of the RSAVP. Virtualize. Everything.
