ADTRAN Powers Innovative Utility Application
August 28 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Leading regional utility deploys TA 5000 for
Improved Grid Reliability
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of
next-generation open networking and subscriber experience
solutions, today announced that its Total Access 5000 (TA 5000)
platform has been deployed to improve the reliability and
resiliency of a leading regional utility’s high-density Smart Grid
power grid distribution network. A first deployment of its kind,
the utility is leveraging the TA 5000 fiber access platform in
targeted service areas as the enhanced communications system to its
automated switching devices.
“The opportunities delivered by the Gigabit Society in terms of
how business processes can become more efficient and reliable are
unmatched and we’re excited to be a part of this groundbreaking
application,” ADTRAN VP of American Sales & Head of Global
Business Development Craig Stein said. “The PON network fits the
power distribution network like a glove, eliminating the need for
heavy use of homerun fiber and affording the use of more reliable
passive equipment in the network.”
The ADTRAN network that has been deployed is a secure,
high-speed, low-latency communication system that operates between
power line reclosers without having to take the traffic through any
equipment upstream of the OLT. It allows all automated line
switching devices to employ ultra-fast and effective peer-to-peer
coordination between other switching devices via GOOSE messaging
utilizing the 61850 communication protocol, as well as enhanced
high-speed wired SCADA communications. This allows for a larger and
more complex centralized self-healing network.
“PON and 10G PON are creating opportunities to develop
market-specific applications where communication between machines
and devices is time sensitive. The utility market is just the tip
of the iceberg,” Ovum Principal Analyst Julie Kunstler said. “10G
PON’s fiber-based architecture with latency, capacity and security
advantages, supports high-performance applications, such as the
Smart Utility model.”
ADTRAN fiber access solutions afforded this power distribution
application the benefits of ultra-low latency not available using
traditional communications methods. This low latency capability
uniquely supports the accurate targeting of power faults providing
over 80 percent reduction in the customers affected and the time to
restore power, also known as Customer Minutes Interrupted (CMI).
Utilities will also leverage a dual-parented, PON redundancy
configuration using ADTRAN MOSAIC to manage redundancy
orchestration implemented in a clustered architecture to provide
management plane redundancy.
About ADTRAN
At ADTRAN, Inc., we believe amazing things happen when people
connect. From the cloud edge to the subscriber edge, we help
communications service providers around the world manage and scale
services that connect people, places and things to advance human
progress. Whether rural or urban, domestic or international, telco
or cable, enterprise or residential—ADTRAN solutions optimize
existing technology infrastructures and create new, multi-gigabit
platforms that leverage cloud economics, data analytics, machine
learning and open ecosystems—the future of global networking. Find
more at ADTRAN, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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