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AND TELECOMMUNICATION SC D2 Regular Meeting and Colloquium October 2011 Buenos Aires - Argentina As concerns the SC D2 Colloquium, the following three Preferential Subjects were selected as being current issues for the Electric Power Industry:
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PS1 - Communication Technologies and Solutions for Core Networks in Electric Power Utilities. The technologies and solutions for core networks are evolving and the utilities are seeing an increasing number of new alternatives. Some of them will not be of interest for EPUs and some others are currently being incorporated gradually and will be widely used in the future. The focus was in the following areas, Applications, Reliability and Availability and Experience.
(Electrical Power Utilities) for their own needs. This situation can be different when the Utility Company acts like a telephone carrier. Additionally two important issues for the Electrical Power Utilities companies were discussed:
Inventory Operation Support Systems (IOSS), taking into account the aspects of the system, the evaluation of the inventory project evaluation cycle, the direction for further deployment cycles, the use of existing information, and so on;
Remote monitoring of optical cable network to increase the availability of the communication systems, and consequently the reliability of the EHV Electricity Grids as well as significantly reducing maintenance costs (preventive procedures and corrective maintenance tasks). Another item that was discussed during the Colloquium was that some utilities are migrating from public telephone operators towards their own communication systems, due to the unsatisfactory results that were obtained with the public telephone companies. The wide spectrum of participants has allowed an important and large analysis of the subjects above mentioned, as well as to exchange experiences and criteria about:
implemented solutions by Utilities Companies; solutions being implemented; doubts about the direction of the migration process;
cautions in decision making prior to migration. To summarize, in the analysis process for a potential migration of communication systems technologies of the EHV Electricity Grid, the two following key questions are to be considered:
What is nowadays the problem of the existing communication system for EHV Electricity Grids?
Which are nowadays the restrictions of the existing communication systems for EHV Electricity Grids? that would justify the replacements of the existing communication systems, as well as obtain an efficient relationship CAPex-OPex.