Growing demand and aging infrastructures are threatening the health and scalability of today’s electrical grid. To meet these challenges, energy and utilities companies are turning to smart grid network technology. IBM and Juniper Networks can help with combined business expertise and networking technology to deliver flexible, secure and open high performance networking environments.
IBM and Juniper Networks can help you address smart grid networking challenges for automated metering infrastructure (AMI), network consolidation and NERC/CIP security as well as communications needs for transmission systems and distribution automation. Juniper Networks provides high performance IP networking solutions based on JUNOS™ software to enable a simplified, automated and secured environment for next-generation smart grid networks. In addition, the IBM Intelligent Utility Network (IUN) Solution provides a rich source of data from the field and the tools to transform this data into useful information.
Our solutions can help you:
- Add a layer of intelligence to your grid with pre-tested technology and best practices.
- Improve service with carrier class reliability and high performance networking and security.
- Introduce new services to market faster and easier.
- Simplify operations, improve flexibility and reduce costs, with a single operating system and management platform.
- Manage risk by intelligently identifying and adapting to threats.
- Automate network monitoring and provisioning to allow self-healing and dynamic allocation of resources.
- Secure applications and networks, and control applications with scalable performance for data centers, wide area networks and the mobile workforce.
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- Whitepaper: The New Networking Requirements for the Smart Grid
- IT Services: IBM and Juniper Networks
- IBM and Juniper Networks Alliance Overview
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- IBM Energy and utilities home page
- Juniper Energy and Utilities home page
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