Cisco Advances Smart Grid Strategy
Posted by Jesse Ward on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 · 
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Cisco is aggressively pursuing the smart grid market, announcing last week that it will acquire Arch Rock Corp., a provider of IP-based wireless technology focused on the smart meter, and releasing news of a new strategic partnership with smart meter vendor Itron.
Based in San Francisco, Arch Rock technology is designed to enable utilities to connect smart meters and other distributed intelligent devices over a scalable, wireless mesh network. Read more
AT&T Partners with Silver Spring on Smart Grid
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, December 14, 2009 · ·
AT&T and Silver Spring Networks, a seven-year-old company based in California that sells smart grid networking gear to utilities, announced a new partnership last week in which Silver Spring will utilize AT&T’s network to backhaul its smart-grid gear. The financials of the deal were not disclosed.
“We are thrilled to be working with Silver Spring and their growing number of successful deployments, as we continue to expand our smart grid solutions that enable utilities to utilize wireless technology as backhaul for customer data,” said Chris Hill, vice president, mobility product management, AT&T Business Solutions. Read more