Vermont Electric builds secure network with Ethernet

VELCO recognized that their operations center also needed direct access to substation information such as fault recorder and protective relaying, to provide the company’s targeted high levels of customer satisfaction. By allowing appropriate personnel throughout the utility to access substation information, the company could asses any new situation and respond rapidly. Faster access to information would increase customer satisfaction, enhance security, and reduce costs.

6K25 Managed Fibre Switches are installed in substations throughout VELCO’s service area, and are tied into the communications network through a WAN port dedicated to substation automation. 6K Switches have the powerful, highly secure and robust remote access management capability that VELCO needed to protect its resources and customers. GarrettCom’s MNS-6K Managed Networks Software runs on all 6K-Series Managed Switches with Secure Web Management (SWM) providing encrypted authentication and access over Ethernet from remote locations. The 6K25 Switches are durable, hardened for the substation environment. They are configurable and flexible, which ensure customers such as VELCO of an upgrade path capable of supporting future growth.

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