Advanced technologies are only as strong as the communications infrastructure supporting them. Utility-grade private LTE layers in proven standards, resulting in predictable life cycle costs and enhanced controls. All you need is a trusted partner to design the system that meets your use cases.
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Utilities must take charge of communications systems. A clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities starts with buy-in at the executive level.
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Excitement is building over 5G wireless solutions. Utilities face a host of considerations — all boiling down to selecting the communications technology that best supports business needs today and for the future.
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The growing complexity of power delivery systems requires utilities to reassess risks to communications infrastructure, boosting control and redundancy.
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A recent FCC ruling allows utilities to build out private telecom networks for controls and other uses, freeing up increasingly scarce spectrum resources.
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The Federal Communications Commission’s recent action to make parts of the 900 MHz spectrum available for the development of critical wireless broadband technologies is a landmark change for the utility industry.
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Frequency bands have historically been used interchangeably with technology standards and naming conventions. Utilities may not need the latest and greatest.
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Eight electric utilities jumped into the spectrum arena with bids for the right to build telecommunications networks — but why only eight?
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Secure-boot functionality addresses the challenge of device security on electrical grid networks, but it requires utility collaboration with vendor partners.
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Facing rapid changes in generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, utilities are contemplating how the deployment of private wireless recommended long-term-evolution (PLTE) communications infrastructure can improve monitoring and control of critical systems that make up the grid.
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San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has selected Burns & McDonnell to program manage the implementation of its new private long-term evolution (PLTE) wireless broadband network.
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Burns & McDonnell is expanding broadband field area network service capabilities within its telecommunications practice with the addition of three experienced telecommunications engineers with specialized knowledge in private Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks.
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Private broadband wireless networks provide better control options and are increasingly the solution utilities look to. However, telecommunications build-outs are often logistically and geographically complex. These challenges are forcing a new look at long-held assumptions on how best to deliver multiyear, multisite, capital-intensive communications projects.
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