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"SmartGridNet" Architecture for Utilities
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
Posted:  06 May 2008
Published:  01 Jan 2007
Format:  PDF
Length:  16   Page(s)
Type:  White Paper
Language:  English


ABSTRACT:
Market forces are driving today's utilities to provide better planning, administration, and management of electric service delivery. In order to meet this demand, diverse communications infrastructures must evolve to support improved collection, analysis, security and management of information, from generation, through transmission and distribution, all the way out to the end customer. This paper describes an evolutionary approach to an intelligent communications network ("SmartGridNet"), maximizing leverage of the existing asset base and minimizing capital and operations expenses.


Authors

Jonathan D. Weiss
Alcatel-Lucent
Jonathan has been working in reliable, secure, mission-critical networking for over 25 years. Early in his career, he led the development of secure systems for Federal Government applications, including the first multi-level secure version of the UNIX® system evaluated by the National Computer Security Center, and associated networking and Intrusion Detection System capabilities. He also led the development of security engineering and software reliability requirements for command and control networks for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program that were subsequently adopted as standards within the Department of Defense. He has led consulting practices in security, and reliable software engineering, and has designed network and IT application solutions for service provider, enterprise and government customers. Previously, he led the development of security, reliability and quality of service requirements for select Alcatel-Lucent products, services, and solutions. Most recently, he has been responsible for defining and marketing solutions for reliable networks for the energy industry.

Tim Mew
Alcatel-Lucent
Tim Mew currently works in Alcatel-Lucent’s Enterprise and Government Services division, with specific responsibilities for managing and evangelizing Services-based solutions for the global Oil & Gas and Power Utilities markets. Prior to this, Tim was the head of the Solution Design and Innovation team in Australasia, specialising in Railways, Highways, Oil & Gas and Security solutions.Tim’s generalist background is well-suited for the end-to-end integrated solution requirements of Enterprise and Government customers. It has included architecture, technology planning and service development disciplines in the technology areas of Next Generation Networks, VoIP, Intelligent Networks, PSTN, CTI, Internet and IP, CCTV, e-commerce, and wireless communications.

Peter Johnson
Alcatel-Lucent
Peter’s career has taken him into a wide variety of experiences in the communications market working variously for vendors, managed services providers and a UTelco. After a period with Nortel (equipment vendor) and then Racal Data Networks (managed services operator), in 1993 Peter joined National Grid’s UTelco operation: Energis. Here, he was initially responsible for the definition and deployment of the services infrastructure and subsequently for regulatory affairs and interconnect services. In 1997, Peter moved to Alcatel and contributed directly to the successful development of the network applications business and then the outsourcing and managed services business, with several significant wins under his belt. Peter’s current role is as Vice President for Utilities within Alcatel-Lucent’s Services Business Group, leading the company’s approach to this market segment.



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