Network management systems represent an emerging and critical market for the utility industry. As utilities deploy more intelligent endpoints and communications networks to support their smart grid activities, many of today’s homegrown and proprietary solutions are insufficient to address the problems that utilities face.
Utilities are struggling to extract value from existing systems and equipment because of the prevalence of siloed networks, and these difficulties in managing multiple AMI platforms are only going to increase as utilities deploy additional applications. Robust, central tools to manage telecommunications can help utilities eliminate operational and personnel inefficiencies, optimize the capacity of deployed equipment, and consolidate the management and views of multiple networks.