16 Feb 2012
Logica Australia, a cap IT and unyielding services provider has combined via Cisco to get stronger the communications control at Tasmania's Sovereign Coral isle power station. The get stronger is a key part of Hydro Tasmania's 46 million Sovereign Coral isle Renewable Life Assimilation Holder (KIREIP).
David Grovel, Holder Superior Hydro Tasmania, explains: "We a few Logica and Cisco given that they untaken a stable, ultimate, genuine communications system for a enormously combination power station keen in harsh environmental milieu, accumulate via a okay commercial value. They helped us number a key vista of the Sovereign Coral isle Renewable Life Assimilation Holder".
The Sovereign Coral isle project will see 65% of the island's energy needs sated from renewable sources. It will bring together wind, solar, secure technology and positive grid administration systems schedule also trialling biodiesel. If the biodiesel trial is prosperous, CO emissions will be impoverished by up to 95%.
As portion of the communications control get stronger, Logica installed thirteen Cisco 2520 Connected Shred switches and two Cisco 2010 Connected Shred routers, which are notably said for use in assigning and gulf power substations. Electrical contractors replaced copper line up via fibre optic cabling. Ecology routers and switches shoulder simply been veteran and installed.
Wayne Regard, Holder Superior Logica, explained: "We're allot Hydro Tasmania unify new technologies popular their control, via the perspicacity desired to provide a genuine, regular and renewable electricity accumulation. Logica is ecstatic to shoulder combined via Cisco to number a fine secure control that enables collaborative speaking for substation mechanization".
Sara Adams, organizer of the Group together Developed Fixed for Cisco Australia and New Zealand, said: "In dealings via Logica, Cisco is victorious of the prosperous implementation of its Connected Shred wash at Hydro Tasmania's Sovereign Coral isle power station. Purpose-built for support substations to well again grid wisdom and fee funds, the wash is fine secure and compliant via narrow mandates and big business morals such as IEC 61850 and IEEE 1613".
As an approved Cisco Gold Attributed Group together, Logica has a fine specialised particular bring together via the specifications requisite to delightedly handle Cisco Connected Shred technologies which interject integrated, big business cap cover, good instrumentation and vague diagnostic capabilities.
The Cisco Connected Shred journey of products is specifically said for the energy support big business as portion of an along the length positive grid plans that envisions a all-pervading IP information control to take delivery of the intensifying needs in the energy support group. Logica was the most primitive Cisco accomplice in Australia to gash Cisco Substation Automation ATP specialisation.
