Communications for the Modern Grid by Doug Houseman - Session 4

Session 4. Considerations in communications network design, planning, operations and outage - Thinking about the 4 types of operation- blue sky, outage, recovery, firmware maintenance - Thinking about who is allowed on the utility network (e.g. do you put consumer owned equipment on the network directly?) - Physical considerations in communications design and planning (e.g. topology, weather, density of devices, etc.) - Playing in the unlicensed spectrum- lessons learned and how to think about the impact of sharing - The communications overlay of the grid - ghosts of communications outage on reliability and the impact of distributed computing - Hackers and why -fail useful- is critical - Other lessons learned