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CSC and Proximetry to Deliver Smart Grid Network Management Cloud Service
January 19, 2012
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CSC announced today that it is collaborating with Proximetry to leverage its AirSync platform as the foundation of a smart grid network management cloud service. CSC's offering is designed to provide network management to multi-vendor, multi-radio (LTE, WiMax, WiFi, 4G) public and private networks that is secure, reliable and highly-available. The solution, initially to be offered in the United States with future markets launching later in 2012, will be hosted from CSC's cloud data centers.
"In the age of instant information, rapid response and smart devices, utilities must have an unprecedented level of expertise in managing the change impacting communication networks," said Jill Feblowitz, vice president, IDC Energy Insights. "Agility, flexibility and the degree to which they're equipped to extend the same network communication service levels provided in the data center to the grid transformation -- with the right people, processes and technologies -- will determine when and how well the benefits of the smart grid will gain traction."
Proximetry's AirSync software is designed to be a comprehensive smart grid network management system (SGNMS) that provides device configuration and management, software management, QoS and traffic shaping, network monitoring and feedback, and network topology visualization for managed devices. By combining this capability with CSC's cloud services and utilities industry expertise, the companies are seeking to help utilities establish an effective platform for smart grid communications network management.
CSC's AirSync Cloud solution is designed to support rapid deployment and scaling of the application, enabling management and monitoring across a range of communication endpoint devices, applications and communications protocols. This capability will be offered to utilities without the need for investment in data center hardware and infrastructure, and comes at a time when the industry faces a complex, dynamic device market and escalating customer demand. The solution is intended to allow utilities to extend the same network management capabilities used today inside the data center into the field/grid, resulting in a number of benefits.
"Realizing the full potential of smart grid technology requires a sophisticated, adaptable enterprise architecture that can interactively collect, synthesize, report on and respond to vast amounts of data collected in real time," said Robert Welch, president, Chemical, Energy and Natural Resource Group, CSC. "We're offering the market a multi-vendor, multi-radio as a service solution that provides enhanced flexibility, improved performance and, in most cases, cost savings that can be passed on to the customer -- a key competitive differentiator in these uncertain economic times."
Source: CSC
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