UTC Telecom & Technology 2019

How Optical Networks Deliver Reliability, Security, and Control in an Era of Uncertainty (Room 202B)

20 Jun 19
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Tracks: Business Drivers of Telecom Infrastructure

Speaker(s): Sam Lisle, Business Development Director, Ribbon ECI; David Van Winkle, VP, Operations & Maintenance, Georgia Transmission Company

Emerging forces like smart grids, Distributed Energy Resources, IoT, 5G and EV charging create difficult new demands and greater dependency upon telecommunications networks for power utilities across the ecosystem.  But the market hype mixed with the inevitable reality of these forces creates uncertainty in the target architecture for those networks and how to evolve today’s environment toward that target.   Amidst the uncertainly optical networking investments possess clear near-term values of Reliability, Security and Control; while positioning utilities to adapt network architectures for a variety of possible futures.   ECI will review emerging optical networking technologies and their roles for utilities and Georgia Transmission Corporation will explain how their optical infrastructure delivers reliability, security, and control as they serve their member companies.