1) Existing network equipment approaches “End-of-Life”Ĭommercial telecom carriers have replaced SDH/SONET with next generation packet based technology and have declared their legacy systems “End-of-Life”. The decision to do so stems from various factors.
#Power utility telecom upgrade#
However, a tide of change is sweeping through the utility telecommunications sector lately and many utilities have plans to replace or upgrade their systems.
These SDH/SONET networks have supported various critical applications including protection systems and control center monitoring. Most power utilities operate their own OT network and historically, utilities have relied on Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) technologies such as Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)/ Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET). These are mission critical applications within the utility landscape. This makes an IT network important but not critical. OT on the other hand involves the operation of field-based devices that are time sensitive such as teleprotection, and applications that operate in real time, such as SCADA and distribution management systems. The IT network is used to automate various business and administrative functions such as billing, and is mainly located in offices and data centers. The network installed in power utilities are divided into Operational Telecom (OT) and Information Technology (IT). “I think it’s a positive move for the government to allow TNB to kick-start the project and optimise the facility they are going to have in Melaka,” he said.A reliable communications network is of utmost importance to power utilities to ensure the secure and consistent delivery of power to the community. Meanwhile, Abdul Razak commended the government’s move to allow Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) to kick-start its pilot broadband project in Melaka, as part of the National Connectivity Plan. Meralco is the largest private sector electric distribution utility company in the Philippines, covering 36 cities and 75 municipalities, including Metro Manila. Globally, smart home and smart cities fall under the business plans of most telco, and most utility as well, so it would be interesting to see if they can both play in the same market, join up, compete, or if one entity will be dominant,” he said. So there is an interesting dynamic to how this is all going to play out. “The utility will tell you that without our power supplied, none of this stuff is going to work. “The telcos will tell you they own the home as they provide the broadband, they provide the communication, they want to get into this additional home services that they are offering smart home services and all of these things. “There are clearly synergies in the physical installation of cables, but where the challenges or the arguments are going to be, is, for example when it comes to who is the entity that owns the home. Manila Electric Co (Meralco) chief technology adviser Gavin D Barfield, who was also at the news conference, concurred, saying that the collaboration would be synergistic for both power utility and telecommunications sector. “It would be best if both the power utility and telcos can reach an agreement at the planning stage, for example to plan that line would carry both power and telecommunications facility, that would be the best thing to do and it would avoid congestion,” Abdul Razak who now chiars the non-governmental organisation Energy Council of Malaysia, told reporters at the 22nd Conference of Electric Power Supply Industry (Cepsi 2018) yesterday. I think it is a perfect synergy if the operational needs of both are met. “This would allow sharing of a common way leave. KUALA LUMPUR: Collaborations between the power utilities and telecommunications companies (telcos) “makes sense” as it is a perfect way to optimise asset utilisation, according to a former energy sector regulator.įormer chairman of the Energy Commission of Malaysia Datuk Abdul Razak Abdul Majid said it would reduce the amount of way leave - a right of way granted by a landowner in exchange for payment - that is required for telephone lines and power lines.
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