Nokia technology to power Chinese smart grid
Updated : 16:11
Nokia announced on Thursday that its Chinese subsidiary, Nokia Shanghai Bell (NSB), has won the State Grid Corporation of China’s (SGCC) optical transport network (OTN) project.
The Finnish technology firm said the deployment would cover SGCC Beijing and Tianjin, and would help SGCC to “smoothly evolve” the transport network from 10Gb/s to beyond 100Gb/s, based on Nokia's in-house PSE chipset.
It said the SGCC constructs and operates power grids providing power to more than 1.1 billion people in 26 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, covering 88% of China.
With a mission to provide safer, cleaner and a more economical and sustainable power supply, Nokia explained that SGCC was improving its production and management process.
It said an upgraded optical transport network for the support of integrated data networks and operations network services was a key step, meeting growing bandwidth capacity demands and paving the way for future smart grid developments.
The project followed the successful deployment of a similar optical network by Nokia Shanghai Bell in Hebei, which currently serves 100 million customers of SGCC Jibei.
Nokia said its 1830 PSS-32 platform was at the core of the new SGCC optical transport network.
“The new OTN network can provide better technology support for communications, deliver higher level of security and reliability for the power grid, and raise operational efficiency, while improving the business environment to help us deliver better services to our customers,” said SGCC Tianjin vice-general manager Zhang Huijian.
“We are pleased to be working with Nokia, which has advanced optical/IP technologies and provides high-quality and professional services to support us in this project.”
Jin Jian, executive vice-president at Nokia Shanghai Bell, added that the firm was “very happy” to be working again with SGCC to improve its core network, this time in Beijing and Tianjin.
“The new network will not only meet its capacity needs but will also improve efficiency and support a wide range of technologies that will be required as it make its electrical grid smarter.”