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Traditional energy networks consist of disparate network systems and technologies designed for unidirectional electricity flow. This inefficient infrastructure lacks seamless communications, introduces risk, drives costs higher, and is unable to meet the challenges facing the energy industry.

Cisco envisions a complete solution that is designed to meet the requirements of the next-generation energy network by leveraging a secure, standards-based communications backbone and intelligent systems for energy providers and consumers. Cisco Smart Grid is a combination of products, technologies, services, and eco-system partners that help enable energy utilities to build a common, end-to-end infrastructure.

With Cisco as a partner, customers will be able to build a network with streamlined communications, improved security, resilience, and unified management across the different stages of energy generation, storage, distribution, and consumption.