What is the most impressive thing about a UTelco?
By Michael Roney What’s the most impressive thing about a UTelco business, when a utility leverages assets to provide its service area with data, voice and video services? Is it the fact that a UTelco can provide a new revenue source in tough times, or a way for a utility to fund its smart grid [...]
Tapping into UTelco business opportunities
The ongoing worldwide deployment of smart grid communications technology is creating unprecedented business opportunities for utilities looking to enter the telecom market — as long as they are able to match their assets with favorable regulatory and competitive factors. Due diligence requires engaging with experts to help generate and justify the business case and understand the operational requirements. Once that is completed and a utility forges ahead, the results can be impressive.
With: L. Hunt, Global Vice President, Utilities Business Development, Alcatel-Lucent - 27 Sep 2012
AltaLink, Canada: Sharing experience about IP transformation
Clint Struth, Principal Engineer – Telecommunications, and Cory Struth, Network Architect, AltaLink Management Ltd. revealed during an interview how to maintain and improve critical network technology in a market environment where TDM and ATM availability is declining and costs are escalating, and also where service requirements of power utilities and consumers are increasingly becoming IP-based. [...]
EPB Chattanooga: customers at the center of the Smart Grid’s future
As the Smart Grid revolution plays out over the next 15 to 20 years, customers are likely to be the driving force and chief beneficiaries of new energy-centric applications that will fundamentally change their lifestyles. “These days we’re used to instant information, to quick response, and to having control over a lot more things in [...]
With: H. DePriest, President and CEO, Electric Power Board of Chattanooga (EPB) - 05 Dec 2011
Dealing with the Smart Grid’s key drivers and challenges
The Internet we depend on every day for an amazing diversity of business, recreation, social and entertainment activities has changed unimaginably from the few static websites that appeared on our browsers in 1995 or even 2000. As we now try to look forward to the full realization of the Smart Grid in the years ahead, [...]
With: K. Ballout, Vice President - Energy System Integration Division, Alcatel-Lucent - 05 Dec 2011