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Cisco portfolio for utilities: What can we help you solve today?
- Electric utilities
- Water utilities
- Field networking
- Operational safety and security
- Industrial hybrid work
- Explore the use cases
- Explore the architectures
- __________
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Electric utilities
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Water utilities
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Field networking
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Operational safety and security
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Industrial hybrid work
Distributed energy resources (DER)
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Automate DER interconnection and integrate asset and control systems to support reliable and sustainable grid operations.
Video demo
OT Asset Vulnerability Management (3:26)
See how enabling secure access to electric utilities provides critical visibility into grid operations and limits the impact of identified vulnerabilities.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Global carbon reduction initiatives
- Global and local legislation and regulations
- Shareholder pressure
- Customer pressure
- Need to create more sustainable generation portfolio
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
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Business needs
- Enabling distributed energy resources such as solar and wind power
- Enable sustainable electrification of customers
- Comply with regulations
- Increasing shareholder value
- Enable sustainable business practices
- Cost effectively meeting peak power demands
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Capabilities
- Secure, remote, industrial connectivity to generation resources
- Cost-effective application hosting for small-footprint, large-quantity DER applications
- Reliable backhaul of telemetry to support two-way power flow
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Business outcomes
- Sustainable energy sourcing
- Contributing to net zero strategies by enabling renewable energy
- Regulatory compliance
- Accelerating achievement of net zero goals
- Cost savings during peak power rates due to increased energy storage
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Stakeholders
- Chief sustainability officer
- Director of grid modernization
- Director of innovations
- Chief architect
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) Industrial Gateway (IG) Integrated Services Router (ISR) |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio Nexus Switches (data center and control center) |
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Wireless |
Industrial Router (IR) 5xx Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points and IoT modules Industrial Wi-Fi Access Point Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (CURWB) |
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WAN |
Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) SD-WAN |
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Network operations |
IoT Operations Dashboard Field Network Director (FND) |
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Application performance |
AppDynamics |
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SCADA apps |
Cygnet ClearSCADA WonderWare |
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Edge intelligence and compute |
Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router Industrial Router (IR) 829 IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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Partner success stories
Distribution automation
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Manage voltage levels throughout the power distribution systems and automate power restoration.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Improved reliability of distribution grid from fewer and shorter interruptions
- Improve efficiency by reducing technical and nontechnical losses due to natural disasters and other events
- Maintain acceptable voltage levels along the distribution feeder
- Incorporation of distributed energy from renewable systems
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
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Business needs
- Asset monitoring
- Minimize interruptions and restore power to disabled circuits and customers quickly
- Avoid regulator fines for prolonged outages
- Improve margin and reduce OpEx
- Measure, comply, and report on industry standards
- Reduce energy consumption and generation
- Improve power quality
- Reduce energy costs
- Enable sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Locate, isolate, reconfigure, and restore power to healthy sections of a circuit
- Create secure, highly-reliable communications to the FLISR infrastructure to ensure application uptime is maximized
- Zero touch deployment
- Denser capacitor bank and voltage regulator placement
- More frequent VVO measurement and control
- Secure connections
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Business outcomes
- Improved safety for grid infrastructure
- Integrated grid planning
- Real-time monitoring and analytics
- Regulatory compliance
- Higher margins from reduced OpEx improves outage restoration times
- Optimize SAIFI scores to avoid financial penalties and assure rate relief return
- Reduced energy loss and thermal leakage resulting in lower carbon footprint
- Reduced truck rolls/trips resulting in lower carbon footprint
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Stakeholders
- Distribution engineering
- OT telecom
- Telecomm engineering
- Protection engineering
- Control systems engineering
- CISO
- Chief sustainability officer
- Security department
- Grid planning personnel
- Corporate risk
- Independent power producers
- Procurement
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
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Routing |
Catalyst IR8140 Heavy Duty Series Router Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers IR510 WPAN Industrial Router IR530 Series Resilient Mesh Range Extender |
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Switching |
Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Wi-SUN mesh 5G, LTE backhaul Public LTE (5G), Private LTE (4G/5G), FirstNet Band 14, Anterix Band 8 Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (CURWB) |
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Network management (on premises) |
Field Network Director (FND) |
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Network management (cloud-based) |
IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) SD-WAN |
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User and device authentication and profiling |
Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
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Security |
Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Firewall ISA3000 |
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Domain name services (DNS) |
Umbrella |
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Visibility and analysis |
Cyber Vision Secure Network Analytics |
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Real-time threat identification |
Talos threat intelligence |
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Edge compute |
Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers IR510 WPAN Industrial Router |
Special offers above
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
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Partner success stories
Substation automation
Provide secure, reliable substation networking to support substation automation, monitoring and security.
Video demo
OT Asset Vulnerability Management (3:26)
See how enabling secure access to electric utilities provides critical visibility into grid operations and limits the impact of identified vulnerabilities.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Incorporation of distributed alternative energy sources
- Replacement of aging power delivery infrastructure to meet demand
- Modernization and installation of smart grids to improve reliability and efficiency
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Business needs
- Comply with industry standards and regulations--IEC-61850, NERC/CIP, and other country/region standards
- Improve operations and maintenance
- Increase system and staff efficiencies
- Leverage and defer major capital investments
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Capabilities
- Enable remote control diagnostics and predictive maintenance
- Enable physical monitoring of substations
- Maintain strong regulatory compliance
- Provide secure communication to substations
- Substation ruggedized hardware to meet reliability standards
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Business outcomes
- Avoid unplanned downtime and the corresponding power delivery interruption
- Improve grid reliability resulting in reduced OpEx and improved revenues
- Prolong the useful life of costly capital assets such as transformers in step down substations
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Stakeholders
- Substation engineering
- OT telecom
- Telecomm engineering
- Protection engineering
- Distribution engineering
- Control systems engineering
- CISO
- Security department
- Grid planning personnel
- Corporate risk
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
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Routing |
Catalyst IR8300 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers |
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Switching |
Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switches Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Wi-SUN mesh 5G, LTE backhaul Public LTE (5G), Private LTE (4G/5G), FirstNet Band 14, Anterix Band 8 Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (CURWB) |
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Network management (on premises) |
Cisco DNA Center Field Network Director (FND) SD-WAN |
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Network management (cloud-based) |
SD-WAN |
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User and device authentication and profiling |
Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
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Security |
Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Firewall ISA3000 Snort intrusion prevention system (IPS) Unified Threat Defense (UTD) |
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Domain name services (DNS) |
Umbrella |
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Visibility and analysis |
Cyber Vision Secure Network Analytics |
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Real-time threat identification |
Talos threat intelligence |
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Edge compute |
Catalyst IR8300 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
Special offers above
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
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Partner success stories
Advanced metering infrastructure for electricity
Enable meter reads, power quality sensing and customer load profiles through automated two-way communication.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Reduction of OpEx
- Enable distributed energy resources
- Determine consumer behavior to gain insight into planning
- Accordance with DoE policy for demand response
- National metering standard requires utility companies to provide time-based rates
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
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Business needs
- Provide better customer service as a competitive advantage
- Insight into customer usage to determine demand
- Time-of-day billing to drive peak load shedding
- Reduce truck rolls and operating costs
- Enable sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Automate existing manual processes
- Reduce operational costs
- Improve data quality
- Accurately size new transformers and circuits to match peak load conditions based on data provided
- Detect outages more quickly
- Prevent “theft” by identifying strange usage patterns
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Business outcomes
- Improved customer service
- Regulatory compliance
- Peak load shedding
- Outage detection and prevention to improve grid reliability
- Shortens billing process
- Optimization of system performance and real-time identification of problem areas, resulting in reduced energy loss and lower carbon footprint
- Reduced truck rolls, resulting in less travel, lower carbon footprint, and reduced OpEx
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Stakeholders
- Metering personnel
- Distribution engineering
- Telecomm engineering
- Control systems engineering
- Security department
- Grid planning personnel
- Independent power producers
- CISO
- Chief sustainability officer
- Corporate risk
- OT telecom
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
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Routing |
Catalyst IR8100 Heavy Duty Series Routers Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Wi-SUN mesh 5G, LTE backhaul Public LTE (5G), Private LTE (4G/5G), FirstNet Band 14, Anterix Band 8 |
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Network management (on premises) |
Cisco DNA Center Field Network Director (FND) SD-WAN |
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Network management (cloud-based) |
SD-WAN |
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User and device authentication and profiling |
Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
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Security |
Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Firewall ISA3000 |
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Domain name services (DNS) |
Umbrella |
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Visibility and analysis |
Cyber Vision Secure Network Analytics |
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Real-time threat identification |
Talos threat intelligence |
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Edge compute |
Catalyst IR8140 Heavy Duty Series Router |
Special offers above
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
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Partner success stories
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Provide the secure communication and data management infrastructure needed to build a network of electric vehicle chargers and optimize the consumer experience.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Growth in electrification and EV adoption
- Increased need for EV charging infrastructure at scale
- Need for efficient management of EV charging station network
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Growing cybersecurity threats
- Decarbonization
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
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Business needs
- Connected EV charging stations
- Secure aggregation, sharing, and management of data
- Eliminate duplicate network infrastructure/extended enterprise
- Real-time view of stations
- Secure equipment access
- Remote troubleshooting
- Safe environment for customers
- Reduce carbon emissions and other air pollutants
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Capabilities
- Extract, transform, and share vehicle and charging session data
- Video streaming and analytics of activity
- Efficiently control, govern, and secure data
- Support ongoing use case growth with future technology integrations
- Monitoring charging equipment with network-connected sensors
- Increase asset tracking and utilization
- Centralized and automated environmental controls (using AI, software applications, and a single pane of glass)
- Enable vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technologies
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Business outcomes
- Improved charging station uptime and throughput
- Improved asset management
- New revenue streams
- Improved driver experience
- Meet consumer demand for large-scale charging infrastructure
- Increased brand affinity and loyalty
- EV charging infrastructure can offer branding, advertising, and cross-promotional opportunities
- Enable sustainability outcomes
- Sustainable energy sourcing
- Substantially reduce carbon footprint
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Stakeholders
- CIO/CTO/CSO
- Chief sustainability officer
- Facility manager
- EV charging station manufacturers and network operators
- Automotive manufacturers
- Charging station owners and operators
- Local, state, and federal/national leaders
- City managers of mobility, sustainability, and transportation
- Drivers and citizens/residents
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
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Switching |
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Wireless |
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Wireless backhaul |
Cisco Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (CURWB) |
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Cameras |
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SD-WAN |
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Management |
Cisco DNA Center |
Meraki Systems Manager |
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Network management (cloud-based) |
IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) |
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Security Special offers above |
Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
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Application performance |
AppDynamics |
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Integration services |
DevNet |
|
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
Cisco partners can complement and enhance this use case by providing capabilities such as consulting, designing, implementing, and operating solutions.
Partner success stories
SCADA system modernization
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Develop IoT readiness, system capacity, and system efficiencies to secure critical infrastructure and build resiliency.
Business overview
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Industry drivers
- Aging SCADA systems that need to become more efficient and secure
- Boost operational efficiency while driving costs down
- Migrating to a predictive system that allows operators to proactively predict, detect, and fix abnormal disturbances
- Extending life of equipment
- Improve security
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
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Business needs
- Extend life of assets
- Remote real-time monitoring and troubleshooting
- Reduce costs
- Reduce downtime
- Increase efficiency
- Increase capacity with the same number of staff
- Migrate from the manual collection of data and logbooks to electronic records that meet state and federal regulations
- Enable sustainable business practices
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Capabilities
- Real-time data capturing and control, anomaly/ breakdown alerts, data logging and analysis
- Proactively predict, detect, and fix anomalies
- Ability to do real-time remote monitoring of assets
- Ability to manage the system and troubleshoot remotely in real time
- Real-time system alarm and automated response
- Securely integrate secondary networks such as IoT
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Business outcomes
- Optimized infrastructure efficiency and reliability
- Reduced operating and maintenance costs
- Increased personnel safety
- Better regulatory compliance
- Optimized alarm management
- Extended life of equipment
- Increased security
- Optimization of system performance and integration of IoT networks, resulting in reduced energy consumption, water waste, and lower carbon footprint
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Stakeholders
- Elected and appointed municipal leaders
- City CIO/CTO
- Utility director/deputy director
- Asset managers
- Operations director
- Chief sustainability officer
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series Catalyst IR8300 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series |
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Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
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Network management |
Cisco DNA Center Field Network Director (FND) SD-WAN |
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Network services |
Access control list (ACL) Quality of service Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP) Virtual LAN (VLAN) |
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Security Special offers above |
Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Firewall ISA3000 |
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Integration services |
DevNet |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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Find and engage partners
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Partner success stories
WAN modernization for water
Enable highly reliable and secure IP connectivity via both private high-speed WAN and public carrier circuits.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Leverage IoT technologies to get ahead of equipment failures based on real-time data
- Gain a better understanding of rotating equipment performance
- Ability to reduce risk of equipment failure
- Increased automation--self diagnosing and self healing
- SONET and TDM discontinuance
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Business needs
- Prioritize and reduce infrastructure spending based on real-time monitoring
- Predict failures in advance
- Extend asset life
- Real-time insights for operations and maintenance staff
- Remote, real-time monitoring and troubleshooting
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Capabilities
- Automate and cross reference condition monitoring using sensor/network technology
- Continuous access to diagnostic information that operators need to safeguard assets and improve efficiency
- Real-time identification of failures and ability to mitigate issues quickly through automation
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Business outcomes
- Optimized asset efficiency and reliability
- Reduced operations and maintenance costs
- Extended asset lifetime
- Better real-time insight for operations and maintenance staff
- Reduced downtime
- Reduced risk
- Lower cost of OT/WAN
- Improved business function reliability
- Regulatory compliance
- Minimize cyber risk
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Stakeholders
- Elected and appointed municipal leaders
- City CIO/CTO
- Utility director/deputy director
- Asset managers
- Operations director
- Telecomm engineering
- Control systems engineering
- Metering personnel
- Security department
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
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Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Industrial Wireless Portfolio |
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Wireless WAN |
Cisco Ultra Reliable Wireless Backhaul (CURWB) |
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Compute |
Unified Computing System (UCS) |
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Edge compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
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Firewall |
Secure Firewall Secure Firewall ISA3000 |
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Network security |
SecureX platform Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Firewall Management Center Secure Network Analytics Talos threat intelligence Umbrella DNS |
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Industrial asset visibility and security |
Cyber Vision Center Cyber Vision sensors |
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Enterprise network management |
Cisco DNA Center |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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Partner success stories
Asset visibility and cybersecurity
Enable real-time asset inventory of critical infrastructure and the ability to correlate assets to known vulnerabilities, supporting reliability and regulatory compliance with limited OpEx.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- OpEx reductions
- Efficiency improvements
- Massive expansion of digital assets in the OT environment
- Risk reduction for the utility's operations as well as its shareholders
- Safe, reliable distribution of water
- Mitigate cyber risk; improve protection
- Protect employees and customers
- Protect local communities and the environment
- Meet regulatory requirements and achieve compliance mandates
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Business needs
- Comply with industry standards and regulation
- Improve operations and maintenance
- Increase system and staff efficiencies
- Leverage and defer major capital investments
- Improve reliability and safety of transmission and distribution while mitigating the inherent accompanying cybersecurity risk
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Capabilities
- Constant industrial network asset identification in real time
- Correlation of identified assets and known vulnerabilities
- Solution can be extended to support advanced OT cybersecurity
- Enforce cybersecurity perimeters and access control, and monitor/report incidents
- Secure automation and control
- Real-time data and analytics for threat defense
- Remote IoT and sensor-based monitoring
- Improve security incident response time
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Business outcomes
- OpEx and accuracy improvements over current labor-intensive. on-site approaches
- Improved infrastructure, better management, and incident cost avoidance
- Operate safely, reliably, and efficiently
- Cisco security features are either virtualized on existing servers or built into switches, preventing the need for additional security appliances and enabling more sustainable outcomes
- Optimized asset efficiency and reliability
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Stakeholders
- CISO
- Chief security officer
- Chief digital officer
- Corporate risk
- OT telecom
- Security director
- Enterprise architect
- Substation engineering
- OT telecom
- Engineering director
- Elected and appointed municipal leaders
- City CIO/CTO
- Asset managers
- Operations director
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Industrial Router (IR) Portfolio |
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Wireless |
Industrial Wireless Portfolio |
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Compute |
Unified Computing System (UCS) |
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Edge compute |
IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
|
Firewall |
Secure Firewall Secure Firewall ISA3000 |
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Network security |
SecureX platform Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Firewall Management Center Secure Network Analytics Talos threat intelligence Umbrella DNS |
|
Industrial asset visibility and security |
Cyber Vision Center Cyber Vision sensors |
|
Enterprise network management |
Cisco DNA Center |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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Find and engage partners
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Partner success stories
Utility WAN
Enable highly reliable and secure substation IP connectivity via both private high-speed WAN and public carrier circuits.
Video demo
The Future of Utilities (2:34)
Learn how grid modernization projects accommodate renewables and create opportunities for Cisco’s FAN solution.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Safe, reliable, and efficient power delivery
- Maximize power generation and delivery
- Avoid worker injury and minimize property damage
- SONET and TDM discontinuance
-
Business needs
- Improve teleprotection schemes
- Technology modernization
- Growing distribution grid administration
- System reliability
- Improve real-time monitoring, analytics, and automation
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Capabilities
- Packet network with advanced virtualization
- Hardened equipment for electric grid environment
- NERC/CIP compliance
- Agility: Enable new distribution grid applications
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Business outcomes
- Lower cost of OT/WAN
- Improved business function reliability
- Regulatory compliance
- Minimize cyber risk
-
Stakeholders
- Telecomm engineering
- Protection engineering
- Control systems engineering
- Metering personnel
- Security department
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Catalyst IR8300 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 900 Series Network Convergence System (NCS) 5500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS) 500 Series |
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Switching |
Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switches Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 5000 Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) 4010 Series Switches |
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Wireless |
Catalyst 9100 Series Access Points Industrial Wireless 3700 Series Access Points Aironet 1500 Series Access Points |
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Security Special offers above |
Secure Firewall ISA3000 |
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Key enabling technologies |
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), segment routing, and SD‑WAN |
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Network orchestration |
Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) |
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WAN modeling |
WAN Automation Engine |
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Edge compute |
Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
Where you purchase matters
Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
Partnerships overview
Find and engage partners
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Partner success stories
Public/private LTE FAN
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
The mostly widely used FAN technology, LTE can be delivered via a service provider or built as a private or semi-private RF network.
Video demo
The Future of Utilities (2:34)
Learn how grid modernization projects accommodate renewables and create opportunities for Cisco’s FAN solution.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- OpEx reductions
- Capital improvements covered by an approved rate case
- Efficiency improvements
- Risk reduction for the utility's operations as well as its shareholders
- Safe, reliable distribution of power
- Improved storm response
-
Business needs
- Improve grid efficiency
- Improve grid reliability through automation
- Improve grid uptime during and after storms
- Support for utility commission mandates, including green and customer satisfaction initiatives
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Capabilities
- Single platform that supports both public and private LTE frequencies and networks
- Support of migration from public to private LTE with limited OpEx
- Operations and maintenance that support not just LTE, but also Wi-SUN, LoRa, and wired use cases to allow utility to fit the technology to the use case
- Small, low power router that fits most power use cases
- Support for edge compute at the pole top use cases and substation use cases
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Business outcomes
- Improve grid efficiency though a wide array of sensors and feedback loops
- Improve grid reliability with automation via connected assets
- Improve grid uptime during and after storms and national emergencies
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Stakeholders
- CFO
- CISO
- Director of operations
- Director of grid modernization
- Chief architect
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Evolved packet core |
Ultra Packet Core software Unified Computing System (UCS) |
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Headend router |
Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series |
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Network management (on premises) |
Ultra Network Management Field Network Director (FND) |
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Network management (cloud-based) |
IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) |
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Security Special offers above |
Cyber Vision Secure Firewall Secure Network Analytics Talos threat intelligence Umbrella |
|
Radio access network (RAN) |
5400 Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) Unified Computing System (UCS) Network Convergence System (NCS) 540 Router Third-party radios |
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Gateway (LTE) |
Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router |
|
Edge compute |
Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router |
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Wi-SUN FAN
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
The global standard for utility mesh networking, Wi-SUN FAN supports both meters and real-time use cases.
Video demo
The Future of Utilities (2:34)
Learn how grid modernization projects accommodate renewables and create opportunities for Cisco’s FAN solution.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- OpEx reductions
- Capital improvements covered by an approved rate case
- Efficiency improvements
- Risk reduction for the utility's operations as well as its shareholders
- Safe, reliable distribution of power
- Improved storm response
- Smart meter deployments and grid improvements driven by regulators
-
Business needs
- Improve grid efficiency
- Improve grid reliability through automation
- Improve grid uptime during and after storms
- Support for utility commission mandates, including green and customer satisfaction initiatives
-
Capabilities
- Support for large-scale field area network with both limited OpEx and CapEx
- Highly scalable solution supporting over 10M endpoints
- Support for both meters and real-time use cases on the same multi-service mesh
- Interworking and integration with LTE and private LTE
- Supports value-engineered, multi-tiered FAN
- Accompanied operational platform supports ZTD and massive-scale OA&M
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Business outcomes
- Support for large-scale field area network with both limited OpEx and CapEx
- Highly scalable solution supporting over 10M endpoints
- Support for both meters and real-time use cases on the same multi-service mesh
- Supports value-engineered, multi-tiered FAN
- Consolidated OA&M platform supporting varied use cases and technologies reduces OpEx
-
Stakeholders
- ADMS stakeholders
- Meter/business stakeholders
- CFO
- Chief architect
- Director of grid modernization/smart grid
- Telecom leadership
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Headend router |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series |
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Router (Wi-SUN mesh) |
Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers IR510 WPAN Industrial Router |
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Switching |
Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Network management (on premises) |
Field Network Director (FND) |
|
Firewall |
Secure Firewall |
|
User and device authentication and profiling |
Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
|
Security management |
Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager |
|
Domain name services (DNS) |
Umbrella |
|
Visibility and analysis |
Cyber Vision Secure Network Analytics |
|
Real-time threat identification |
Talos threat intelligence |
|
Edge compute |
Catalyst IR8100 Heavy Duty Series Routers Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router IR510 WPAN Industrial Router |
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Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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Partner success stories
LoRa WAN
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Enables grid automation solutions for low power use cases.
Video demo
The Future of Utilities (2:34)
Learn how grid modernization projects accommodate renewables and create opportunities for Cisco’s FAN solution.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- OpEx reductions
- Capital improvements covered by an approved rate case
- Efficiency improvements
- Risk reduction for the utility's operations as well as its shareholders
- Safe, reliable distribution of power
- Improved storm response
- Smart meter deployments and grid improvements driven by regulators
-
Business needs
- Improve grid efficiency
- Improve grid reliability through automation
- Improve grid uptime during and after storms
- Support for utility commission mandates, including green and customer satisfaction initiatives
-
Capabilities
- Support for large-scale field area network with both limited OpEx and CapEx
- Support for battery-operated utility assets
- Supports value-engineered, multi-tiered FAN
- Accompanied operational platform supports ZTD and massive-scale OA&M
-
Business outcomes
- Support for large-scale field area network with both limited OpEx and CapEx
- Support for both meters and real-time use cases on the same LoRa network
- Supports value-engineered, multi-tiered FAN
- Consolidated OA&M platform supporting varied use cases and technologies reduces OpEx
-
Stakeholders
- ADMS stakeholders
- Meter/business stakeholders
- CFO
- Chief architect
- Director of grid modernization/smart grid
- Telecom leadership
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
LoRaWAN network server |
Industrial Asset Vision (cloud-based) or third party |
|
Headend router |
Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series |
|
Network management (on premises) |
Field Network Director (FND) |
|
Network management (cloud-based) |
IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) |
|
Firewall |
Secure Firewall |
|
Security management |
Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager |
|
LoRaWAN gateway |
Catalyst IR8140 Heavy Duty Series Router Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router for WAN connectivity Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN (Model IXM) |
|
Sensors |
AV300 outdoor GPS sensor AV251 machine vibration sensor AV250 machine temperature sensor AV207 indoor occupancy sensor AV206 light level sensor AV205 water leak sensor AV204 door and window sensor AV203 refrigerator temperature and humidity sensor AV202 product temperature sensor AV201 indoor temperature and humidity sensor AV200 outdoor temperature and humidity sensor |
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Partner success stories
Heterogeneous FAN
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Allows the utility to design an individualized FAN to leverage the most appropriate technical and financial FAN solutions for any given use case, geography, or circumstance.
Video demo
The Future of Utilities (2:34)
Learn how grid modernization projects accommodate renewables and create opportunities for Cisco’s FAN solution.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- OpEx reductions
- Capital improvements covered by an approved rate case
- Efficiency improvements
- Risk reduction for the utility's operations as well as its shareholders
- Safe, reliable distribution of power
- Improved storm response
- Smart meter deployments and grid improvements driven by regulators
-
Business needs
- Improve grid efficiency
- Improve grid reliability through automation
- Improve grid uptime during and after storms
- Support for utility commission mandates, including green and customer satisfaction initiatives
-
Capabilities
- Support for large-scale field area network while allowing utility to use a variety of FAN technologies to match the use case, geography, and financial requirements
- Support for LTE, pLTE, Wi-SUN mesh, LoRa, and wired
- Highly-scalable solution supporting over 10M endpoints
- Support for both meters and real-time use cases on the same multi-service FAN
- Mobile and fixed asset support
- Single operational platform supporting all heterogenous FAN technologies while simplifying and reducing OpEx for OA&M
-
Business outcomes
- Support for large-scale field area network with desired mix of performance, coverage, and OpEx/CapEx balance
- A single heterogenous FAN can be cleanly presented to the utility commission for rate case support
- Support for both meters and real-time use cases on the same multi-service, multi-modal FAN
- Interworking and integration with LTE and private LTE
- Supports value-engineered, multi-tiered FAN
-
Stakeholders
- CFO
- CISO
- Director of operations
- Director of grid modernization
- Chief architect
- ADMS stakeholders
- Meter/business stakeholders
- Telecom leadership
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Evolved packet core |
Ultra Packet Core software Unified Computing System (UCS) |
|
LoRaWAN network server |
Industrial Asset Vision (cloud-based) or third party |
|
Headend router |
Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series |
|
Network management (on premises) |
Ultra Network Management Field Network Director (FND) |
|
Network management (cloud-based) |
IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) |
|
Security Special offers above |
Secure Firewall Secure Network Analytics Talos threat intelligence Umbrella |
|
Radio access network (RAN) |
5400 Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) Unified Computing System (UCS) Network Convergence System (NCS) 540 Router Third-party radios |
|
Gateway (LTE) |
Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router |
|
Gateway (Wi-SUN) |
Catalyst IR8140 Heavy Duty Series Router IR510 WPAN Industrial Router IR530 Series Resilient Mesh Range Extender |
|
Gateway (LoRaWAN) |
Catalyst IR8140 Heavy Duty Series Router Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router for WAN connectivity Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN (Model IXM) |
|
LoRaWAN sensors |
AV300 outdoor GPS sensor AV251 machine vibration sensor AV250 machine temperature sensor AV207 indoor occupancy sensor AV206 light level sensor AV205 water leak sensor AV204 door and window sensor AV203 refrigerator temperature and humidity sensor AV202 product temperature sensor AV201 indoor temperature and humidity sensor AV200 outdoor temperature and humidity sensor |
|
Edge compute |
Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router |
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Point-to-point secure wireless
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Deliver secure, high-bandwidth, low-latency wireless Ethernet connectivity to the grid, enabling real-time data collection, monitoring, security, and remote workforce capabilities.
Video demo
The Future of Utilities (2:34)
Learn how grid modernization projects accommodate renewables and create opportunities for Cisco’s FAN solution.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- OpEx reductions
- Capital improvements covered by an approved rate case
- Efficiency improvements
- Risk reduction for the utility's operations as well as its shareholders
- Safe, reliable distribution of power
- Improved storm response
- SONET and TDM discontinuance
-
Business needs
- Improve grid efficiency
- Improve grid reliability through automation
- Improve grid uptime during and after storms
- Support for utility commission mandates, including green and customer satisfaction initiatives
- Technology modernization
- System reliability
-
Capabilities
- Support of migration from public to private wireless with limited OpEx
- Operations and maintenance that support not just LTE, but also Wi-SUN, LoRa, industrial wireless backhaul, and wired connectivity, allowing utilities to fit the technology to the use case
- Wireless packet network with advanced virtualization
- Hardened equipment for electric grid environment
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Business outcomes
- Improve grid efficiency though a wide array of sensors and feedback loops
- Improve grid reliability with automation via connected assets
- Improve grid up-time during and after storms and national emergencies
- Lower cost of OT/WAN
- Minimize cyber risk
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Stakeholders
- CISO
- Director of operations
- Director of grid modernization
- Chief architect
- Telecomm engineering
- Protection engineering
- Control systems engineering
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Evolved packet core |
Ultra Packet Core software Unified Computing System (UCS) |
|
Headend router |
Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000V Series |
|
Network management (on premises) |
Ultra Network Management Field Network Director (FND) |
|
Network management (cloud-based) |
IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) |
|
Security Special offers above |
Cyber Vision Secure Firewall Secure Network Analytics Talos threat intelligence Umbrella |
|
Radio access network (RAN) |
5400 Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) Unified Computing System (UCS) Network Convergence System (NCS) 540 Router Third-party radios |
|
Gateway (LTE) |
Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router |
|
Edge intelligence |
Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router |
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Equipment purchased through Cisco partners--whether it's new or Cisco Certified Refurbished--entitles you to Cisco service support, upgrades, replacement guarantees, a valid software license, and a full warranty.
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Partner success stories
Cybersecurity
Protect your data and operational infrastructure with defense in depth--spanning both enterprise and utility operations. Ensure data privacy while maintaining operational reliability and uptime, by providing cyber threat protection, detection and remediation.
Video demo
OT Asset Vulnerability Management (3:26)
See how enabling secure access to electric utilities provides critical visibility into grid operations and limits the impact of identified vulnerabilities.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Mitigate cyber risk; improve cyber risk protection
- Protect network/grid
- Protect employees and customers
- Protect partners
- Protect local communities/environment
- Modernize the grid without compromising cybersecurity
- Meet regulatory requirements and achieve compliance mandates
-
Business needs
- Improve reliability and safety of the electric transmission and distribution grid via connected assets while mitigating the inherent accompanying cybersecurity risk
-
Capabilities
- Enforce cybersecurity perimeters and access control, and monitor/report incidents
- Secure automation and control
- Real-time data and analytics for threat defense
- Remote IOT and sensor-based monitoring
- Improve security incident response time
-
Business outcomes
- Improved infrastructure, better management, and incident cost avoidance
- Reduce integration and deployment cost/risk
- Maintain reliability performance (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI)
- Operate safely, reliably, and efficiently
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Stakeholders
- CISO
- Corporate risk
- Substation engineering
- OT telecom
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
DMZ |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Secure Firewall |
|
Control center zone |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Network Analytics Talos threat intelligence Umbrella DNS |
|
Backhaul zone |
Secure Network Analytics |
|
Substation multiservice zone |
Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switches Catalyst IR8340 Rugged Series Router Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router Secure Firewall ISA3000 Secure Network Analytics Cyber Vision sensors |
|
Substation process zone |
Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switches Secure Firewall ISA3000 IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Cyber Vision sensors |
|
Field zone |
Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router IR510 WPAN Industrial Router IR530 Series Resilient Mesh Range Extender Secure Network Analytics Cyber Vision sensors |
Special offers above
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Partner success stories
Asset identification
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
OT assets in the utility grid are predominantly critical infrastructure used to support the delivery of power. Having real-time asset inventory and correlating the assets to known vulnerabilities supports both grid reliability and regulatory compliance with limited OpEx.
Video demo
OT Asset Vulnerability Management (3:26)
See how enabling secure access to electric utilities provides critical visibility into grid operations and limits the impact of identified vulnerabilities.
Take advantage of limited-time promotions on Cisco Industrial IoT products
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- OpEx reductions desired
- Efficiency improvements
- Massive expansion of digital assets in the OT environment
- Risk reduction for the utility's operations as well as its shareholders
- Safe reliable distribution of power
-
Business needs
- Comply with industry standards and regulation (NERC/CIP Version 5 and other country/region standards)
- Improve operations and maintenance
- Increase system and staff efficiencies
- Leverage and defer major capital investments
-
Capabilities
- Industrial network asset identification in constant real time
- Correlation of identified assets and known vulnerabilities
- NERC asset identification compliance support
- Solution can be extended to support advanced OT cybersecurity
-
Business outcomes
- Improve grid reliability
- Achieve asset inventory compliance
- OpEx and accuracy improvements over current labor-intensive. on-site approaches
-
Stakeholders
- Chief security officer
- Chief digital officer
- Security director
- Enterprise architect
- Substation engineering
- OT telecom
- Engineering director
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
DMZ |
AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Secure Firewall |
|
Control center zone |
Catalyst 8000 Series Edge Platform Cisco DNA Center Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Firewall Secure Firewall Threat Defense Manager Secure Network Analytics Talos threat intelligence Umbrella DNS Unified Computing System (UCS) |
|
Backhaul zone |
Secure Network Analytics |
|
Substation multiservice zone |
Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio Catalyst IR8340 Rugged Series Router Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router Secure Firewall ISA3000 Secure Network Analytics Cyber Vision sensors |
|
Substation process zone |
Catalyst IE9300 Rugged Series Switches Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio Secure Firewall ISA3000 IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway Cyber Vision sensors |
|
Field zone |
Catalyst IR8340 Rugged Series Router Catalyst IR1101 Rugged Series Router IR510 WPAN Industrial Router IR530 Series Resilient Mesh Range Extender Secure Network Analytics Cyber Vision sensors |
Special offers above
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Partner success stories
Physical security
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Maintain constant contextual and situational awareness through monitoring that protects assets while ensuring employee safety.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Protection of people, property, and infrastructure
- Reduce risk to employees, resources, and the environment
- Quickly deliver information to the appropriate resources in critical situations
- Rising public safety and national security concerns
-
Business needs
- Protect people and assets
- Monitor assets for real-time information and visibility across sites and encompassing infrastructure
- Health and safety of personnel
- Enhance threat awareness and incident response
-
Capabilities
- Real-time data for threat defense
- Enforce cybersecurity perimeters for improved access control, better threat monitoring, and incident reporting
- Integrated safety and security solutions that seamlessly encompass video surveillance and advanced analytics to proactively monitor and manage potential threats
-
Business outcomes
- Safe work environment for employees
- Protection of assets
- Reduce technology integration cost and ongoing deployment risk
- Enforce intelligent cyber and physical security to monitor sites for evolving risk, incidents, and threats
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Stakeholders
- CIO/CTO/CISO
- VP of risk management
- VP of safety
- Compliance officer
- Operations
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | Cisco | Meraki |
|---|---|---|
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Routing |
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Switching |
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Wireless |
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|
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Cameras |
Meraki Video (MV) Cameras |
|
|
SD-WAN |
Viptela |
Meraki SD-WAN |
|
Cellular gateway |
Meraki MG21 |
|
|
Management |
Cisco DNA Center |
Meraki Systems Manager |
|
Security Special offers above |
Identity Services Engine (ISE) Secure Access by Duo Secure Endpoint Umbrella |
|
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Location-based services |
Cisco DNA Spaces |
|
|
Application performance |
AppDynamics |
|
|
Integration services |
DevNet |
|
Where you purchase matters
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Partner success stories
Remote mobile worker
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Enable remote field workers with secure connectivity to access operational and line of business applications.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Efficient operations to lower operating costs and maintain a productive working environment
- Optimized operations to drive excellence and create a competitive differentiation
- Employee safety and security improvements
- Productivity enhancements
- Diminishing field resources in workforce; reduced expertise
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
-
Business needs
- Increase grid reliability and human safety
- Increase time on tools
- Location awareness
- Safety and security
- Modernize communications
- Enable sustainable business practices
-
Capabilities
- Improved speed and accuracy to resolve issue in the field
- Immediate access to expertise and knowledge
- Remote troubleshooting and best practice sharing
- Enhanced communications across multi-functional teams at different locations
- Enable remote expert engagements
- Traceable sharing real-time video and photos for training and audit
-
Business outcomes
- Reduced costs associated with turnaround
- Resource optimization and faster time to resolution; remote expert decision support
- Improved employee and contractor safety and risk management
- Field worker productivity and efficiencies
- Less travel, resulting in lower carbon footprint
-
Stakeholders
- Environmental health and safety team
- Reliability manager
- HR
- Distribution leadership
- Chief sustainability officer
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers |
|
Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Catalyst 9124 Series Access Points Industrial Wireless 3700 Series Access Points |
|
IoT application management |
IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) |
|
Security Special offers above |
Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
|
Dashboard, analytics, and location awareness |
IoT networking partner software |
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex |
|
Endpoints |
Mobile device manufacturers |
|
Edge compute |
Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
|
Edge application platform |
IOx |
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Partner success stories
Mobile fleet management
- Overview
- Business overview
- Technical overview
- __________
Provide secure collaboration tools so workers can share data and collaborate over voice and video, to facilitate more timely execution of their field responsibilities.
Business overview
-
Industry drivers
- Lack of skilled labor and quality experts
- Aging workforce that is quickly reaching retirement age
- OpEx reduction
- Worker productivity
- Drive more sustainable business solutions to meet ESG and net zero goals
-
Business needs
- Robust collaboration with field workers and their assets with remote experts
- Maximize human safety
- Maximize field workforce efficiency resulting in reduced OpEx and improved restoration times
- Fleet optimization
- Enable sustainable business practices
-
Capabilities
- Data uploaded in seconds with LTE
- Handles multiple wireless laptops, smartphones, and tablets simultaneously
- Machine-to-machine communications for background and next-step tasks while field crews are working
-
Business outcomes
- Faster issue resolution/utilization with visual collaboration between sites and engineers
- Improvements in provisioning and clearance time
- Improvement in training effectiveness using collaboration technologies
- More efficient travel, resulting in lower carbon footprint
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Stakeholders
- Fleet management
- Human resources
- Worker of the future
- Control systems engineering
- Security department
- Telecomm engineering
- Distribution engineering
- Grid planning personnel
- CISO
- Corporate risk
- Substation engineering
- Chief sustainability officer
Technical overview
Free trials and special offers
Cisco products
| Component | |
|---|---|
|
Routing |
Catalyst IR1800 Rugged Series Routers Catalyst IR1100 Rugged Series Routers |
|
Switching |
Industrial Ethernet (IE) Switches Portfolio |
|
Wireless |
Catalyst IW6300 Heavy Duty Series Access Points Catalyst 9124 Series Access Points Industrial Wireless 3700 Series Access Points |
|
IoT application management |
IoT Operations Dashboard (IoT OD) |
|
Security Special offers above |
Cyber Vision Identity Services Engine (ISE) |
|
Dashboard, analytics, and location awareness |
IoT networking partner software |
|
Collaboration Special offers above |
Webex |
|
Endpoints |
Mobile device manufacturers |
|
Edge compute |
Catalyst IE3400 Heavy Duty Series Switches IC3000 Industrial Compute Gateway |
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