New Zealand: IP Upgrade for Power Grid
Steven Deare writes on ZDNet Australia:
Power grid operator Transpower New Zealand will install an IP-based communications network to help manage New Zealand's national electricty grid.More here.
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.
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. - ferg
posted by Fergie @ 5/23/2007 06:18:00 PM
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