Long Views

Moving Into Substation Networking, Cisco Seizes Smart Grid’s Low-Hanging Fruit

  • Thursday, June 24, 2010

Cisco has long spoken of the commercial potential of the smart grid, and with its new hardened networking gear for utility substations, it now aims to dominate.

Cisco has gone beyond talking about its plans for the smart grid, but competing for space in utility substations will involve more than simply hardening some routers and switches.

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