New Zealand: IP Upgrade for Power Grid

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Let's hope that it is not connected to the Internet in any way,
shape, or form -- for the sake of New Zealand's infrastructure
security.

Via ZDNet Australia.

[snip]

Power grid operator Transpower New Zealand will install an IP-based
communications network to help manage New Zealand's national electricty
grid.

Transpower has awarded Alcatel-Lucent a five-year contract to install and
maintain the network, which will link 192 sites across the country.

Transpower owns and operates the National Grid, New Zealand's electricity
transmission network, which links generators to distributors and industry.

The work will see the company's legacy systems migrated to an IP/MPLS
system over a fibre and microwave radio network, according to
Alcatel-Lucent. The network will provide Voice over IP, wireless LAN,
digital microwave and LAN switching capabilities.

The network will be based on technology from a number of vendors.

The value of the deal was not disclosed.

[snip]

More:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/IP-upgrade-for-NZ-power-gri
d/0,130061791,339277792,00.htm

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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