Utility customers expect power to be available at the instant they need it.  Most are unaware of the increasingly complex challenges utilities face as they deploy Smart Grids, ensuring supply can continue to meet demand.  One of the fundamental building blocks of the next generation power grid is a broadband communications network that helps utilities continue to meet customer expectations…and more.

As the grid gets “smarter”, utilities will be faced with massive amounts of data from a wide range of applications that needs to be collected, analyzed, and in some cases, be used to generate automated responses such as shutting down a switch before it hits overload. Utilities need to consider the requirements of all Smart Grid applications in aggregate in order to define a superset of requirements for the communications network.  Bandwidth and latency are two of the key elements that need to be evaluated for each application and in taking these in aggregate, utilities can define requirements for the network. GridCom™ delivers both multi-megabit bandwidth and millisecond latency.