Tami Barron, President & CEO Southern Linc Tami Barron’s video, presented at the 2019 Anterix Investor Day on how Southern Linc sees private wireless broadband networks as strategic and tactical advantages for electric utilities. In their planning, they are using 4g technology as the workhorse, with the complimentary 5g technology as a layer on top.
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If you think about our industry as a whole the same needs exist, across the industry as within Southern Company. If you think about the evolution of our industry, there's this coalescence and merging of operational technology, with information technology which is really data analytics as well as telecommunications. I'm not sure where it stops and starts any longer, because they are all so interdependent.
With the grid operations being so dependent on the telecommunications infrastructure, it's critical for us as an industry to have telecommunications support of that network that match our own electric grid requirements.
So having a brand new, truly mission critical highly reliable, highly secure network at Southern Company positions us extremely well to meet the needs of our operating companies and our external commercial customers that value mission critical communications going forward.
So the 4G technology is the predominant platform. You hear about the evolution of 4G to 5G technology, which is absolutely true in the world. However, 5G really becomes a layering on top of the 4G network. 4G is at the macro level, and 5G is at the micro level, so they are really complimentary technologies.
Our strategy is that any 5G deployment would really be driven be use case specifics. So 4G we consider the workhorse for Southern Company and our Mission Critical Wireless network.
Based on our experience, we are convinced that private wireless broadband networks are a strategic and tactical advantage for electric utilities. Utilities have a long history of working together and collectively a network of Utility Broadband networks will provide a powerful benefit the industry as a whole.
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