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2022 Summit & Plugfest Registration is Open! |
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Letter From Our Host Utility & Board Leader:
It was two years ago that the COVID-19 pandemic began and in so many ways, a challenging and trying time for all of us. This year marks a pivotal year as life returns to normal. With that, I hope you take the opportunity to join me along with industry leaders to this year’s UBBA Summit & Plugfest in sunny Southern California. It will be held the week of October 10-14, 2022, at the Westin South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California.
The Summit will feature many panel discussions, keynote speakers and technical sessions focused on the advancement and development of private broadband networks within utility companies. These events are a wonderful opportunity for utilities industry leaders, industry partners, and all to come together and collaborate on the future of the grid. The reality is that technology factors are driving urgent, near-term needs emphasizing the importance of grid modernization and digitization to bring more connected devices to utility communications networks.
Like last year, the Plugfest portion of the event will be a unique experience for all those who participate. This portion of the event is based on a partner ecosystem and a chance for vendors, consultants, thought leaders, and utilities to demonstrate and interact with use cases of upcoming technology being developed for our industry. These exciting new advancements can be both scaled and executed to fulfill both your technological and business needs and is one of the few times we are able to see it all in one place.
As we all work towards the goal of developing the grid of future, I hope to see you in SoCal at the UBBA Summit & Plugfest to collaborate with like-minded individuals all working towards that same objective.
Take Care,
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Carlos Carazo
UBBA Board Member,
Grid Solutions Leader at Southern California Edison,
UBBA 2022 Host Utility
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"The network security challenges and solutions facing utilities in the deployment of cellular networks"
Speakers:
- Steve Lowe, Ericsson
- Ken Kaminski, Ericsson
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Free Webinar - June 14, 2022 @ 3pm ET |
The utilities infrastructure as a whole is seeing radical changes. Part of those changes is the shift to digitalization and the integration of telecommunications-based systems. This shift in particular will pose its own set of challenges for utilities including changes to network architecture, network security, and cellular network integration. The biggest challenge of all is maintaining network security as utilities advance their connectivity to integrate cellular networks and branch out on their IoT use and expand their supply chain.
Join UBBA Members and our webinar sponsor, Ericsson
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WELCOME NEW UBBA MEMBERS! |
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American Electric Power, based in Columbus, Ohio, is powering a cleaner, brighter energy future for its customers and communities. AEP’s approximately 16,800 employees operate and maintain the nation’s largest electricity transmission system and more than 223,000 miles of distribution lines to safely deliver reliable and affordable power to 5.5 million regulated customers in 11 states. |
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Sony Semiconductor Israel is a leading provider of cellular IoT chipsets. The company’s cellular IoT chipsets are the smallest and most highly integrated LTE CAT-M and NB-IoT chipsets on the market, featuring ultra-low power consumption, hardware-based security, and a carrier-grade integrated SIM (iSIM), all 5G ready.
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With more than 15 years of experience in continuous development improving our solution in the meter industry. EASYMETERING technology activities cellular broadband capacity to smart meters in order to use Private LTE infrastructure. This solution assists electric utilities to save operational hidden costs compared with other systems that currently are used in the market, making the implementation financially viable at a low cost. |
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S&C Electric is a leading provider of switching, protection, and control solutions for electric power systems. Headquartered in Chicago, S&C is applying its heritage of innovation to address challenges facing the world’s power grids and thus improving power reliability and delivery worldwide. The mission of S&C is to continually develop new solutions for electricity delivery, fostering the improved efficiency and reliability required for the energy transition. |
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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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REGISTRATION OPEN!
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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