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CURRENT, Qwest to Integrate DSL into Smart Grid

Published Wednesday, June 24, 2009

CURRENT Group, LLC and Qwest Communications International Inc. have announced a new framework that allows electric utilities to integrate intelligent grid sensing with Qwest’s existing low latency, secure, high capacity DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) network to implement a Smart Grid. This allows utilities to implement a high performance smart grid rapidly, cost-effectively and modularly with the speed, reliability and scalability of the existing Qwest network. CURRENT and Qwest already have proven the technology’s interoperability by usng CURRENT’s intelligent sensors and OpenGrid platform and Qwest’s DSL network as part of Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity in Boulder, Colorado. The ...

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