DIGITAL AND IT TECHNOLOGY HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED IN RECENT YEARS, SO THE CONVENTIONAL SUBSTATION CONTROL HAS CHANGED TO DISTRIBUTED AND DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEM. ONE FEATURE OF EVERY SYSTEM IS AVAILABILITY, SO IN THIS PAPER, THE AVAILABILITY OF TRANSMITTAL CONTROL FUNCTION FROM SUBSTATION OR NETWORK LEVEL OF SOME SUBSTATION CONTROL SYSTEM ARE COMPARED. THESE RESULTS HAVE BEEN DERIVED:THE SIMPLE STAR TOPOLOGY HAS LOW MTTF AND RELIABILITY, BUT BY CONSIDERING SEPARATE HMI AND SERVER GATEWAY, THESE FEATURES INCREASE RAPIDLY. IF A REMOTE HMI ADDED, THE MTTF INCREASED BUT A LITTLE, BECAUSE OF REDUNDANCY IN A SMALL PART OF SYSTEM LIKE HMI.BY CONSIDERING SERIAL SWITCH FOR COMMUNICATION TO NETWORK LEVEL WHEN NCC SERVER AND SA SERVER ARE THE SAME, THE RELIABILITY DECREASES BECAUSE OF SERIAL COMPONENTIT YIELD THAT RING TOPOLOGY HAS LESS AVAILABILITY THAN STAR TOPOLOGY.IN RTU_BASED SYSTEMS, BECAUSE OF SIMPLICITY OF I/O UNITS AND THEIR BETTER MTTF, THE AVAILABILITY IS BETTER THAN SA SYSTEM. BUT, WHEN MAINTENANCE IS CONSIDERED, BECAUSE OF COMMON CONTROL COMPONENT (RTU) AND LOSS OF REDUNDANCY, THE AVAILABILITY BECOMES LESSER THAN SA SYSTEM.