Cisco FAN design

Hello reddit!

The title says it all. For a developing project I am tasked with researching possible network designs for power grid systems using Cisco equipment. First thing I did was to read through some papers. Mainly this paper.

Based on the document the equipment for this solution are:

Cisco 2010 connected grid router (CGR)

Cisco 2520 Connected Grid Switch

Cisco Aggregaion Services Router

However, for the design solution MPLS is required on all nodes. As I then went through datasheets of each product I found out that only ASR supports it.

The question here is, has Cisco any other similar switch/router which is compliant with IEEE 1613 and IEC-61850-3 substation standards for rugged design (mainly low latency for GOOSE messaging transport) and has MPLS protocol stack? The solution with ASR at every substation is unfortunatley a bit too expensive.

Thanks!