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Communications for the modern grid

Photonix integrates telecommunications and wireless backhaul for electricity, water and gas utilities. Our relationship with utilities began with telecommunications and now extends to control and power, from the substation to the control room.

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CHALLENGES

The challenges shaping utility networks

  1. Renewing ageing control communications.

    Serial and TDM links are approaching end of life, and their replacement must proceed without interrupting operations.

  2. Gaining visibility of more assets.

    Renewables, batteries and distributed generation are adding sites faster than existing networks were designed to support.

  3. Securing operations without constraint.

    Operational networks require protection that supports the control room rather than impeding it.

HOW WE HELP

How Photonix strengthens the grid

  • Expanded capability · built on our telecommunications foundation

    Migration planned by transport specialists.

    Our expanded SCADA capability applies our telecommunications transport expertise to staged, reversible transitions from legacy links to IP.

    SCADA & Industrial Networks

  • Core capability

    Visibility of every asset.

    Microwave and point-to-multipoint radio that extend the network beyond the fibre.

    Wireless & Microwave Backhaul Systems

  • Expanded capability · built on our telecommunications foundation

    Reliable power at remote sites.

    Solar and battery systems for the remote sites we already connect, delivered as an expanded capability with our partners.

    Renewable & Off-Grid

  • Expanded capability · built on our telecommunications foundation

    Compute at the substation.

    Self-contained edge facilities for local processing, connected, protected and powered on the foundations we have engineered for years.

    Micro Data Centres

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can you connect assets beyond the fibre network?

Yes. We integrate licensed microwave or point-to-multipoint radio and, through our expanded capabilities, off-grid power where required.

Modernising utility communications?

Tell us which services must continue without interruption, and our specialists will engineer the path forward.

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