PLANO,
Texas, Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ericsson
(NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced delivery of its industry-leading
Radio Access Network (RAN) and its role to help power up Ameren's
private communications network. This milestone is the result of a
recently signed 10-year infrastructure and service partnership
agreement between Ericsson and Ameren, an Investor-Owned Utility
(IOU) headquartered in St. Louis,
Missouri to deploy the private communications
infrastructure.
"Ameren is modernizing our grid, including deployment of a
private network structure that will allow us to better serve
customers. This technology will mean improved reliability, faster
response time, grid security and lower costs for customers as we
combine to a single standard solution," said Chris Vana, senior director of engineering and
architecture at Ameren. "Ericsson has been a market leader in
mission-critical private networks, and they are a trusted partner
on our communications grid modernization journey. We are excited by
our current and future opportunities with this partnership."
Ameren's approach to its communications grid modernization
consolidates disparate network solutions into one highly-efficient
communications network using the 900 MHz spectrum band. This is an
affordable, well-propagating frequency that will not only improve
operational and financial efficiencies, but enable Ameren to
provide enhanced device management, monitoring and predictive
analytics of assets, as well as deploy its own people to
troubleshoot its telecommunication challenges. Ameren will also
have a heightened level of cybersecurity as there will no longer be
third-party vendors maintaining the data and information on the
network. Ameren will be well-positioned and have capacity for
forecasted growth, expansion of clean energy resources as well as
better management, accountability and standards-based
implementations in its service territory.
"In this fast-changing environment, utilities are looking to
privatize their communications networks to improve how they
monitor, control, optimize, and decarbonize every aspect of their
smart grid ecosystem," said Koustuv
Ghoshal, Vice President and Head of Utilities, Energy &
Industrials at Ericsson North America. "Private communications
networks enable leading IOUs such as Ameren in their digital
transformation goals and reduction of operational costs, while
accelerating decarbonization of the grid and improving connectivity
for both the grid assets and workforce. Ericsson has a proven track
record of delivering commercial communications infrastructure at
both large and small utilities in North
America. By leveraging our industry expertise and assets
such as our Utilities Innovation Center and the Device Testing and
Verification lab, we look forward to partnering with Ameren on
their grid modernization journey."
Under the agreement to create the private network, Ericsson will
supply Ameren with its carrier-grade cloud-native dual-mode core
solution to support the network with geo-redundancy and RAN
solutions, capable of supporting future upgrades.
Ericsson has a long track record delivering mission critical
network solutions to industries globally, including some of the
largest U.S. IOUs and rural municipal utilities, helping to support
critical infrastructure for people and enterprises in rural and
urban areas throughout the country. The partnership with Ameren is
another of the large private network infrastructure and services
agreements by a U.S. utility in Ericsson's expanding portfolio of
large-scale private network agreements with IOUs.
NOTES TO EDITORS:
Getting the energy utilities industry connected - Ericsson
Private Networks - Ericsson
Mission Critical Communications - Ericsson
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