When VoIP was first being envisioned as a primary service for cable operators, the change of the cable infrastructure was a basic requirement and lots of changes in the network management had to occur.
As a friend reminded me, the cable operator’s idea of fault isolation was to wait an hour. Usually after an hour, the pins on the maps would have a clear point of failure. Compare that to today, where my cable operator proactively displays outage on the TV screen and makes appointment calls to the hour.
Such a difference. And what was the key? Two-way communications.
Utilities are used to accelerate responses to outages. However, the infrastructure is much more like the cable operators’. The primary difference is the awareness of the need for rapid response. Utilities are experts on two-way dispatch systems. Private radio networks and emergency response systems are part of their forte.
Utilities have private radio networks but these networks, as a rule, are not designed for mass distribution.
So what makes the use of the public wireless network important for the utilities when deploying the smart grid?...Read More
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