| 12/03/2008 |
Webinar: Grounding Systems: Why Important and Why Testing is Invalid 95% of the Time
Electrical grounding is critical to the protection and operation of sensitive electronics suites. This webinar will cover why we ground, its importance and its relationship to surge suppression and lightning protection. Proper ground testing is also critical, although 95% is invalid. We will cover how to properly test and achieve valid results. |
| 12/17/2008 |
Webinar: An Update on Towers and AM Radio System Protection
This sessions reviews the basics of the impact of towers on AM radio antennas. The FCC is proposing new rules that would apply to all licensees, including critical infrastructure. The status of this rule making will also be discussed. |
| 01/07/2009 |
Webinar: Getting Physical with Cyber Security
This webinar will discuss a holistic approach to planning and executing a successful cyber and physical security solution. With NERC compliance dominating the utility landscape, physical requirements can be underestimated. Learn how Physical Security is also a vital component of compliance and protecting and securing your Utilitys vital infrastructure. |
| 01/21/2009 |
Webinar: LMR Narrowbanding
Migrating land mobile radio systems to 12.5 kHz operation is one of the biggest challenges facing hundreds of U.S. utilities, along with hundreds of thousands of other licensees in the 150-512 MHz bands. While the 2013 deadline is not new, many licensees are just now seeking funding for what will be a major undertaking. Interestingly, looking beyond equipment change-out to your operation’s real needs for the future may make the process easier, as well as bringing substantial benefits to your internal customers.
UTC has decades of experience in the land mobile field, and has been helping its members find their best individual solutions in this process. Join UTC Vice President & General Counsel Jill Lyon and Director of Engineering Klaus Bender for a discussion of the technical, business and regulatory drivers in this period of major change. |
| 02/25/2009 |
Webinar: SCADA Solutions: Bridging the Gap between Old and New Technologies
This session focuses on the challenges facing Utilities with Legacy SCADA networks and the technologies available to become NERC compliant. Many of today’s advanced communication options for NERC compliance are disruptive and expensive. This webinar will cover more cost effective alternatives for bridging existing analog networks with modern secure IP technology. |
| 03/11/2009 |
Webinar: Its a Bird, Its a Plane - No Its a Satellite
Satellite communications systems provide a means to access critical remote data. This session is a frank discussion on the satellite solutions available to utilities, including the possitives and negatives associated with these solutions. This session will include a panel discussion by utility representatives who use satellite solutions currently. Come and find out if satellite service can help you address your remote monitoring and control needs. |
| 03/25/2009 |
Webinar: New Developments in Pole Attachment Policies
This webinar will examine the latest developments at the FCC, Congress and the states affecting pole attachments. Specifically, it will discuss rates and access regulations, complaint cases, and state reverse preemption. |
| 04/08/2009 |
Webinar: IP-Based Communications for Utilities
Communications networks are enabling platforms for all next–generation system automation, and future utility networks must provide the packet–based intelligence required to support IP–based applications: SCADA, LMR, VoIP, IP Data, VPNs, etc. These applications require increased bandwidth that is more flexible and efficient; increasingly these services will be delivered over an Internet Protocol/ Multi–Protocol Label Switching (IP/MPLS) –architecture. This webinar will discuss the benefits of implementing utility–wide IP–based systems, especially related to the integration of communications and IT–based applications, making disparate legacy systems interoperate, and easing future systems integration. The significant challenges and obstacles common to IP implementations will also be discussed. |
| 04/22/2009 |
Webinar: Fusing Transport and Data Networks
Automation carries a price: utilities are faced with the need to leverage their existing optical transport networks to carry new traffic from extending network capabilities down to the substation. A new generation of products is being designed to meet these needs. The features and functionality of these new products enable a truly converged network design. This briefing covers the current state of network architecture and future possibilities. |
| 05/13/2009 |
Webinar: Wide Area Network, Monitoring, Protection and Control
This webinar will address emerging ICT technologies, implementation, and management of IP-Based Wide Area Network for monitoring, protection, and control of substation infrastructures. |
| 06/24/2009 |
Webinar: AMI Case Study: San Diego Gas & Electric
This webinar will present a fascinating case study from a utility already deploying smart metering technology. This presentation will allow attendees to see what projects utilities are choosing to implement and why, as well as how. With different types and sizes of projects going on at utilities across the country, this is a great webinar from which to get important information about what is working and where the pitfalls may lie. |
