Challenged with altering environmental, client and regulatory situations, utilities all through the US are on the lookout for alternatives to repeatedly enhance system effectivity, resiliency, and safety. This grid modernization is more and more depending on a modernized communications platform. At Cisco, we’ve lengthy been dedicated to offering utilities a multiservice discipline space community which helps a wide range of expertise and frequency choices finest suited to the distinctive wants of every utility. These embody: WiSun Mesh, LTE, pLTE, WiFi, Excessive Velocity Extremely Dependable PTMP & LORA.
As we attempt to ship the perfect technical and enterprise choices for our vitality purchasers, Cisco is thrilled to announce the highly effective addition to our FAN ecosystem with the announcement of the collaboration between Cisco and Anterix.
About Anterix
As the most important holder of licensed spectrum within the 900 MHz band, Anterix can supply the lengthy wanted non-public spectrum that utilities have been demanding to construct non-public safe and extremely dependable utility radio networks. This Anterix frequency offers a well-balanced possibility that has each good bodily radio propagation whereas providing broadband pace. These traits can help the required deployment density of full-scale grid digitization whereas minimizing non-public LTE infrastructure prices.
About Cisco
The big selection of Cisco Catalyst industrial routers supporting the Anterix frequency will allow utilities to deploy Cisco and Anterix for a wide range of digital grid use instances together with: Distribution Automation (DA) (i.e. VVO, FLISR, Transformer monitoring, and many others.), AMI, T&D substation automation and cell fleet use instances. With these use instances turning into digitized, cyber safety is more and more acknowledged as a foundational part to grid reliability. As we noticed over the previous decade with transmission substation, WAN non-public networks have been being constructed out to cut back OpEx and supply a safer and dependable communications platform, these identical drivers exist as utilities discover the adoption of Personal LTE FAN networks.
Utilities that construct and deploy a non-public LTE community with Anterix frequency coupled with Cisco’s Catalyst options embedded with industrial grid safety, ship clear and speedy advantages by cost-effectively controlling entry to important utility property, monitoring the info-sec of community and energy methods finish factors, mitigating cyber threats, and defending bodily services. Additional, with the Cisco multi-service FAN now together with Anterix, utility operators can benefit from the synergy between non-public and public LTE, WiSUN, WiFi, LoRaWAN, and wired networks whereas deploying all of them in a unified safe structure underneath a Cisco’s single operational administration platform.
In regards to the Partnership
Cisco understands the distinctive wants of its utility prospects and has a robust historical past of constructing extremely safe and large-scale networks for enterprises and industries. This Anterix-Cisco relationship will additional expedite out there non-public LTE options for vitality suppliers in the US that require extremely safe, resilient, and utility-controlled LTE networks.
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