MAKING THE SMART GRID A REALITY
WITH CLOUD-BASED WIRELESS
In the age of instant
information, rapid response
and smart devices, utilities
must have an unprecedented
level of expertise in managing
the change impacting
communication networks.
Agility, flexibility, and the
degree to which they’re
equipped to extend the
same network communication
service levels provided in
the data center to the grid
transformation — with the
right people, processes and
technologies — will determine
when and how well the
benefits of the smart
grid will gain traction.”
Jill Feblowitz
Vice president,
IDC Energy Insights
NETWORK MANAGEMENT
These days, you can hardly read the mainstream media or the trade press
without stumbling across an article calling the smart grid “the future of the
utilities industry.” These digital automation technologies promise energy savings,
cost reductions and greater reliability for both utility companies and their customers,
and it isn’t all marketing hype, either. The potential real-world benefits to utilities
and consumers are enormous, but simply deploying intelligent electronic devices
like smart meters won’t get us where we need to be. Making the smart grid a
reality — making it truly smart — is a complex, specialized and, let’s face it, expensive
undertaking. And it’s a challenge that CSC, with market-leading cloud services,
deep utilities industry expertise and a unique combination of technical skills, is
perfectly positioned to make work, via its industry leading Cloud-based Smart
Grid Wireless Network Management Service, Airsynch Cloud.
CSC is collaborating with leading wireless network and performance management
software provider, Proximetry, to leverage its AirSync™ platform as the foundation
of a “first of its kind” cloud-based smart grid communications network management
offering. For utility operators seeking to pro-actively and efficiently manage their
smart grid communication network, AirSync Cloud provides network management
to multi-vendor, multi-radio (LTE, WiMax, WiFi, 4G,) public and private networks in
a secure, reliable, and highly-available manner, hosted from CSC’s industry-leading
cloud data centers.
CSC, one of Fortune Magazine’s most admired companies, is one of the
world’s largest provider of industry-specific business solutions and services.
More than 97,000 employees — and a worldwide ecosystem of strategic
partners with extensive domain expertise — help enterprises solve their most
difficult business and technology problems.
With the deployment of intelligent devices across the electrical/gas/water utility
grid, utilities have vastly extended their field communication requirements and
are increasingly relying on complex wireless communication networks to provide
a conduit for two-way communications. To ensure a greater level of predictability
in managing communications to millions of endpoints in a secure, scalable and
highly- available environment and to achieve service level objectives, utilities
must extend the same communication network management processes and
tools used in the data center to the field. Given competing priorities many
utilities can’t develop that kind of capability in-house in a timely manner or at
a manageable cost. That’s why CSC and Proximetry are offering an integrated
wireless network management service which enables high-performance deployment,
management and monitoring across a wide range of endpoint devices, applications
and communications protocols. With AirSync Cloud, utilities can rapidly deploy
network management capabilities and provision new services and scale with their
smart grid program. The result is enhanced flexibility, improved performance and
control, through a cost efficient service that benefits customers and the organization.

About CSC
The mission of CSC is to be
a global leader in providing
technology-enabled business
solutions and services.
With the broadest range of
capabilities, CSC offers clients
the solutions they need to
manage complexity, focus
on core businesses, collaborate
with partners and clients, and
improve operations.
CSC makes a special point of
understanding its clients and
provides experts with real-world
experience to work with them. CSC
is vendor-independent, delivering
solutions that best meet each
client’s unique requirements.
For more than 50 years, clients in
industries and governments worldwide
have trusted CSC with their business
process and information systems
outsourcing, systems integration
and consulting needs.
The company trades on the New
York Stock Exchange under the
symbol “CSC.”
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CSC’s experience as a leading systems integrator positions it exceptionally well
for complex implementations of this type. Our solution is completely vendor-
and device-independent, works with virtually any type of endpoint device and
integrates with almost any enterprise application. Its “evergreen” design is engineered
to support the addition of new networks and protocols at any point — without
service disruption.
CSC’s Cloud Services provide the centerpiece of the modern virtualized datacenter,
offering a model for every utility — whether you want self-managed or a managed
service option, or you want private, public or a hybrid cloud, CSC delivers the right
cloud, the right way. With CSC, every utility can easily make the initial move to
‘as a service’ — infrastructure, platform ad software on-demand.
“For enterprises, it has been difficult to obtain the economic benefits of a
public cloud which is delivered to them as a private cloud,” said Robert
Mahowald, vice president, SaaS & Cloud Services at IDC. “CSC has been very
strategic with this announcement. They engaged customers in a discussion
about their business needs and developed a flexible solution that addresses
those needs spot on. CSC’s cloud services break new ground for IT buyers
trying to navigate the road to data center transformation.”
Key Benefits
AirSync Cloud provides a flexible, secure, scalable answer to the challenges
presented by complex wireless communication networks and delivers the
real-world benefits utilities are looking for:
• Increased communication network reliability through pro-active
management of network assets
• Improved and expanded customer service, with faster response times, fewer
service disruptions, better service coverage and enhanced security
• Greater financial efficiency and budgeting reliability with a usage based cost
model , that scales with your Smart Grid deployment
• Improved grid availability, resiliency and security, with proactive problem
detection and resolution and reduced downtime
• Improved monitoring and measurement, supporting detailed reporting
and changes or expansions in service
• The ability to transform operations data into actionable business data
• Support for future smart grid technologies, using standards-based
communications and a scalable infrastructure
• Confidence that the application is hosted on a reliable, available platform,
managed by hardware and configuration experts
CSC’s serves the global utility industry with capabilities from managed services
and system integration, to application development, infrastructure redesign,
application support, and cybersecurity across the traditional utilities value chain,
as well as by implementing strategies that enable utilities to be smart,
sustainable and secure. Learn more at www.csc.com/utilities.
To explore how we can help your utility pro-actively and efficiently manage its
smart grid communication network in a secure and highly-available cloud
environment, contact us at poweryourperformance@csc.com or 800.272.0081.