Nokia to supply critical communications network to northern California water and power utility PCWA
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
* New network to enable Placer County Water Agency to enhance water
distribution and hydro-electric operations across 1500-square mile region
* Nokia IP/MPLS and packet microwave technology to support key utility
applications such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Land
Mobile Radio (LMR) and video surveillance backhaul
* Nokia company SAC Wireless to perform all civil works and construction for
the project
12 July, 2017
Espoo, Finland - Nokia is to provide an advanced communications network to the
Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) in Northern California to support its hydro-
electric power generation and water distribution services in the area. PCWA is
the primary water resource agency for Placer County, California, a 1500-square
mile area between the Sacramento Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountains. PCWA is
responsible for water resource planning and management, retail and wholesale
supply of irrigation water and drinking water to more than 200,000 customers,
and operates five hydroelectric plants producing roughly one million megawatt
hours annually.
Under the agreement Nokia will replace PCWA's aging communications
infrastructure with a modern Internet Protocol/Multi-protocol Label Switching
(IP/MPLS) and packet microwave network that will support a range of critical
utility applications, enabling them to more effectively utilize and manage their
power generation, water resources and water supply.
Managed by Nokia's Network Services Platform (NSP), the network features Nokia's
7705 Service Aggregation Router (SAR) portfolio and 9500 Microwave Packet Radio
(MPR) which are tailored to support critical applications essential for utility
operations, addressing their stringent requirements for security, reliability
and resiliency. The high network flexibility allows PCWA to migrate existing
SCADA system traffic and support new bandwidth-intensive video traffic on the
same network without compromising performance.
Nokia company SAC Wireless will be responsible for the overall construction and
deployment of the network, including managing civil works such as pre-
construction site verification, network design and engineering, installation and
testing of towers, repeaters, shelters, backup power systems and overall project
management.
This agreement, Nokia's first public customer agreement with a water utility,
builds on the company's strong track-record providing mission-critical networks
to power utilities, having served more than 200 such customers worldwide. It
also highlights the progress of Nokia's strategy of expanding its customer base
outside of the traditional telecommunications sphere, a key focus of the
company.
Kamal Ballout, head of the Global Energy Segment for Nokia, said: "Nokia has
invested heavily in recent years on addressing the unique requirments of
utilities for modernizing and converging their communciations in order to
enhance operational efficiency, reliabilty and safety. We are thrilled that PCWA
has put their trust in Nokia to play such an important role in meeting the needs
of their customers."
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Datum: 12.07.2017 - 15:00 Uhr
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