Powering Collaboration to Accelerate Utility Broadband |
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2022 Summit & Plugfest Planning! |
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Letter from the UBBA Board Treasurer
2022 is shaping up to be an amazing year for the utility industry and particularly the Utility Broadband Alliance. The recent passing into law of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is a great win for the critical infrastructure sector, especially water and electricity utilities. The IIJA includes billions for the electric grid, water and wastewater, broadband infrastructure, and cybersecurity designed to maximize resilience. Members of UBBA have been working together to share information and answer questions associated with the IIJA funding to uncover opportunities to accelerate utility broadband strategies. UBBA will be hosting a series of webinars in May and June focused on the IIJA funding opportunities. We welcome you to this important conversation. Information about the sessions will be posted on our website and social media.
After our first year as an independent 501c6 organization, UBBA membership growth is on pace to more than double by year end. This speaks to the growing impetus of private broadband for utilities, and the invaluable contributions of our members in driving, insightful, forward looking discussions to advance the utility understanding of the benefits and opportunities of broadband deployment. We spent much of the first quarter speaking at other industry events to raise awareness of the alliance and to share with utilities of all kinds and sizes the opportunity to join the membership.
As we move into the spring, UBBA will focus on the planning of its 2022 Summit & Plugfest which will be held the week of October 10th in sunny Coast Mesa, California. Our host utility, Southern California Edison, is excited to welcome participants and attendees to share, demonstrate or learn about the strategic impacts of broadband networks for key utility operations. The planning of the technical aspects of the Plugfest is well under way, as is the executive level conference. This year the Summit will inaugurate an Innovation Zone to showcase key current and upcoming technologies that deliver utility broadband enabled solutions for a secure and resilient electric grid. We hope you will join us in 2022 to accelerate the delivery and adoption of utility broadband infrastructure.
All My Best,
Mar
Mar Tarres,
UBBA Board Treasurer
Anterix
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Meet UBBA at DistribuTECH 2022 in Dallas
UBBA Plugfest Showcase Talks Schedule
Join UBBA Members in booth #1026
Monday, May 23
11am - Matt Olson, Burns & McDonnell
1pm - Jeffrey Tufts, Cisco
3pm - HAPPY HOUR IN BOOTH #1026
3pm - Gautam Talagery, Ericsson
5pm - Cole Crews, UScellular
Tuesday, May 24
10am - Tom Wilson, Aclara
12pm - Mike Brozek, Anterix
2pm - Scott Burk, Council Rock
4pm - Daniel Quant, MultiTech
Wednesday, May 25
10am - Tom Wilson, Aclara
12pm - Mike Brozek, Anterix
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WELCOME NEW UBBA MEMBERS! |
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Using technology to power innovation and market transformation in the energy sector, Cambridge Consultants delivers breakthrough solutions for utilities with expertise in sensing and control, combined with world-class data science. To support our clients in North America Cambridge Consultants has labs, design offices and engineering workshops at our three sites in Boston, Seattle and San Francisco.
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Aclara, a division of Hubbell Utility Solutions, is a world-class supplier of smart infrastructure solutions (SIS) and services to more than 1,000 water, gas, & electric utilities globally. Aclara SIS offerings include smart meters & field devices, and software and services that enable utilities to predict & respond to conditions, leverage their distribution networks effectively, and engage with their customers.
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Baicells is an international company, providing disruptively priced and technically innovative 4G LTE and 5G NR Access Solutions, which serve rural outdoor, urban outdoor, commercial indoor, unlicensed and licensed LTE, and a wide variety of vertical opportunities. |
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Ceragon Networks is a global solutions provider of 5G wireless transport. Utilities use our solutions to deliver 5G & 4G broadband wireless connectivity, mission-critical multimedia services, stabilized communications, and other applications at high reliability and speed. |
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StreamWIDE is a global communications leader providing mission critical secure, mobile comms & collaboration solutions for private LTE, CBRS, & carrier networks. Our solutions, Team on the Run, & Team on a Mission, deliver value for critical communications. |
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With groundbreaking packet-level monitoring and continuous synthetic testing, NETSCOUT offers solutions for comprehensive analysis into utilities services through traditional, private, and public cloud environments- for utility applications such as AMI, SCADA, energy management, and business enablement. |
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Leveraging decades of digital security expertise across highly demanding markets, Thales has built a dedicated smart metering cybersecurity solution over cellular networks. The Thales award-winning Connectivity Activation solution tackles the challenge of network provider (or MNO) selection and helps mitigate network disruption. |
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SAVE THE DATE!
The week of October 10th
in Costa Mesa, California
This year we will expand our Plugfest testing area and focus on Mission Critical Utility applications like push to talk, and examining the LTE performance of a composite utility workload. UBBA member teams are already underway with planning for the 2022 Plugfest tests to explore the behavior of utility apps at various network loads.
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COMING SOON!
2022 UBBA SUMMIT & PLUGFEST
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UBBA brought the inaugural LTE Plugfest to St. Louis in October 2021 to showcase the innovation, collaboration and interoperability of utility use cases on private LTE networks. Plugfest testing engaged all parts of the UBBA community with utilities providing field device controllers, vendors providing sensors, devices, modems, LTE core+RAN infrastructure, and integrators providing the head end testing capabilities. |
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Join the UBBA Working Groups |
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UBBA has five active Working Groups open to our members. Utility and vendors collaborate on deliverables to educate and inform utility leaders, regulatory bodies, federal and state agencies, and the industry as a whole about development of private broadband networks for America’s critical infrastructure industries, Each Working Group holds monthly calls, creates whitepapers and other tools for utilities, and delivers educational webinars. Join UBBA today and participate with our experts.
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Remember to ask your IT Department to list @UBBA.com as a trusted domain so you won't miss any important communications from the Alliance. |
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