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Optimized Connectivity for Smarter, Cleaner, More Efficient & Secure Operations

A smart utility network optimizes the utility’s assets and operating efficiency, communicates usage information in real-time, enables consumer participation, supports renewable energy sources, and enhances overall reliability, security, and quality.

Utilities can maintain grid reliability by vastly increasing the communications capability of the grid to support real-time, two-way, broadband communications from the Utility Operations Center all the way to the consumer’s meter.

Selecting the right partner and infrastructure plays a key role in ensuring successful deployments within time and budget constraints. These networks should, therefore, meet Utility standards, improve your efficiency, and be designed for scalable, reliable, secure, and long-term deployments.

CERAGON OFFERS SOLUTIONS FOR:

Electric Utilities

Join the the digital transformation era, with future-proof connectivity spanning from generation, to field assets, to distribution, and all the way to IoT devices. Improve your efficiency, reliability, security, and more.

Electric Coops

Get your grid connected, automated, and more secure. And help bridge the digital divide by leveraging your next-gernartion network to provide connectivity to your subscribers - even in the most rural environments.

Gas Utilities

Optimize your network to gain connectivity, control, visibility, and security of your grid, thereby improving your performance and efficiency.

Water & Sewage

Real-time data and video, predictive analysis, automation, and reliable connectivity are vital to your operations. Minimize disruptions and ensure optimized performance with a next-gereration, end-to-end, network.

Offshore Wind Farms

Offshore assets pose connectivity challenges. In a unpredictable and often volatile environement, stable communications is key. Get real-time and remote monitoring, reporting, control, and surveillance of your offshore assets.

Renewable Energy

As you set the path to the future with renewable energy sources, you need a smart network to keep pace. With a next-gernation end-to-end network, Ceragon provides real-time, low-latency, reliable connectivity to support the most complex applications.

OPTIMIZING UTILITY CONNECTIVITY & EFFICIENCY

Utility networks must align to the diverse requirements of their grid application that include performance (Bandwidth, Latency, and QoS), efficiencies, communication protocols, security (FIPS), and environmental standards, in a way that ensures reliability and scalability to meet current and future Utility Applications.

Ceragon has developed a wide range of capabilities that are mandatory in Smart Utility deployments, including:

Utility-grade network management platform with proactive management to avoid critical network availability issues
radio planning that avoids interference and ensures network uptime
Low latency for critical Distribution Automation devices & multimedia feeds
Multi-Gigabit capacity and QoS to support:
Video Surveillance
Voice
Other critical or bandwidth-demanding applications that help monitor the grid assets.

ENABLING UTILITY APPLICATIONS

Ceragon's secured and reliable utility network infrastructure serves multiple Utility applications, allowing for more efficient operations in renewable generation, transmission, and distribution, including:

Smart meter connectivity
AMI backhauling and substation backhauling
Teleprotection - Transmission monitoring
Distribution Automation
Work fleet applications
SCADA
Video surveillance to monitor grid assets
Renewable energy (wind, solar, offshore)
Utility offices connectivity

Whether embracing the potential of future digitization or just looking to improve on current network connectivity, utilities can depend on broadband, 5G, LTE, and other wireless technologies to help them become far more efficient and productive.

With Ceragon’s Solutions, you can connect the entire grid - from energy generation across distribution to offshore assets and all the way to the consumer site.

RELIABLE CONNECTIVITY FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW

Using advanced, more interactive, sensor-based applications will lead to faster reaction times, better fault management, new energy resources, better monetization of the grid, and more transparent customer billing and pricing.

Interaction with customer home devices and digitizing the customer experience for improved satisfaction
Digital Twin technology - virtual models for reduced costs and risks
Better decision making with advanced data analytics, and preventative and predictive strategies
Dynamic dispatch, self-regulation, and demand response
Internet of Things (IoT) - accelerate renewable energy integration, asset monitoring, and higher reliability
Big Data - providing advanced and predictive analytics for precise, real-time analysis & monitoring
Blockchain - transparent and digital billing and enabler of power sharing from consumer sources
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence capturing value from data
Field workforce more efficient with immediate access to maps, videos, data, and work management tools
Asset management - monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics to optimize asset performance
Broadband service offering – add broadband services to your customer base and increase revenues

Ceragon Providing Technological Excellence

Access and Transport Layer technologies
Automation, management, and efficiency
Best range and capacity
Offshore stabilized communication
Standards-based
Secure, rugged, and reliable
Embedded / Multi-vendor interoperability
Low latency supporting video, voice, data, SCADA, and more
Holistic, end-to-end offering

Ceragon solutions have been designed to withstand the harshest conditions, enable simple upgrades, safeguard investments, deliver reliable connectivity, and position utilities to monetize their network with offerings such as broadband Internet access for rural customers. Whatever your connectivity needs, Ceragon is here to help - bringing decades of expertise and experience.

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