Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cisco for its Highly Innovative and Enabling Technology for Smart Grids

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Cisco for its Highly Innovative and Enabling Technology for Smart Grids PR Newswire MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 1, 2012 The company's comprehensive, flexible, and highly secure standards-based solutions strongly empower utilities and grid managers MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the smart grids market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Cisco Systems, Inc. with the 2012 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology. The company's Connected Grid solutions leverage Internet Protocol (IP) to implement standard-based solutions that can easily integrate various other third-party offerings. The modern smart grid not only interconnects the seven communication domains to ensure high efficiencies, low downtime, and reduced operational expenditure, but also enables reductions in peak power consumption and related capital expenditure. However, the scale and complexity in building and designing such a system throws up various technical, financial, and feasibility challenges. A tried-and-tested networking solution is crucial to handle the vast hardware elements, supporting channels, and different topologies that come together in a smart grid. Cisco addresses these issues by properly utilizing standards-based solutions built on IP, which is still one of the most robust and standardized communications technologies.