NEWS
Power grid
operators in
Poland choose
Nokia private
wireless solution
okia has announced that leading
N Polish energy sector company, PGE
Systemy, has chosen its 5G-ready,
industrial-grade private wireless solution,
following the successful trial of a 450 MHz
PoC network in operation since April 2019.
This marks a critical first step in
evaluating the use of the 450 MHz band
to support the wide-area operations of
energy distribution system operators
(DSOs) across Poland. PGE Systemy will
use the PoC infrastructure to further
develop its concept of a country-wide
critical communications network. The final
private wireless network will potentially
support 15,000 to 20,000 private radio
users over LTE/4.9G, as well as wireless
connectivity for up to 14 million smart
meters and 35,000 existing and future
SCADA (supervisory control and data
acquisition) connections.
The Polish Energy Ministry has chosen
PGE Systemy to operate a 4.9G private
wireless network on the 450 MHz band for
critical and operational communications in
its next-generation power grid. Favoured
by the energy sector across Europe, this
band has excellent propagation properties,
generous power levels and there is strong
availability of voice and data radios from a
variety of equipment suppliers to support
numerous applications. It is the band of
choice for the support of machine-tomachine
communications in the energy
sector, including smart meters and
wireless SCADA connections required,
for example, with wind turbines. Future
applications of the network may include
distributed energy resource management
and other digital smart grid applications.
Commvault’s new product
innovations help enterprises
move to the cloud
ommvault, a recognised
C global enterprise
software leader in the
management of data across cloud
and on-premises environments, has
announced the availability of its
latest product innovations, which
include new cloud and on-premises
data management capabilities.
These capabilities extend the
flexibility and simplicity of
Commvault’s cloud solutions, making
it easier for customers to protect,
control, manage and use data across
multiple clouds. This includes new
support for the backup and recovery
of AWS databases, migration of
Oracle and MS SQL databases
across multiple clouds such as AWS,
Microsoft Azure and the Alibaba
Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
and ServiceNow integration.
Commvault Vice President of Product
Management, Ranga Rajagopalan,
said: “In these challenging times it
is important that organisations have
flexibility when it comes to managing
their data and the cloud is a critical part
of that. With these new capabilities we
are making it easier for our customers
to move more workloads into the cloud
and offering greater simplicity and
flexibility in managing and protecting
their data, wherever it resides.”
As customers shift more workloads
into the cloud, they require the ability
to move and manage data on a variety
of cloud platforms. Commvault has
expanded its cloud capabilities.
To simplify the customer experience
across Commvault solutions,
customers can now sign in once to
manage Commvault across multiple
deployments, all through a pull-down
menu that enables quick navigation
across Commvault regional, data centre,
client or other deployments within the
Commvault Command Centre.
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