Nokia to supply critical communications network to northern California water and power utility PCWA
July 12 2017 - 9:02AM
- 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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