Voice of the Members

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Leveraging Dual-Spectrum for Cost-Effective Utility LTE Network Expansion

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by Ubiik.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Three Architecture Alternatives for AMI 2.0

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by Select Spectrum.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Combining Fiber(GPON) and PLTE to Create High Performance Highly Available Networks

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by RAD.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Leveraging PLTE For Secure, Robust Utility Communication Networks

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by WESCO.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – How Emerging Tech in Private Cellular Will Impact Utility Deployments Today and Tomorrow

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by USCellular.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Introducing the Future of Itron’s Network Platform!

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by Itron.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Applying AI/ML Centric Automation to PLTE/5G Utility Field Area Network Deployment & Operations

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by Nokia.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – An Industry Framework for Private Wireless Broadband Deployment

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by Anterix.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Ensuring Interoperability Between LMR and Broadband

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by Motorola Solutions.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – 5G’s Role in Mission Critical Private Networks

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by Ericsson.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Combining Open Standard, Embedded Edge Computing with Emerging LTE Infrastructure to Deliver Maximum Value for AMI 2.0 and Beyond

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by Aclara | Hubbell.

2024 UBBA Summit Thursday Tech Session – Demystify Device Onboarding in PLTE Networks

Recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest, this Thursday Tech Session was sponsored by OneLayer.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Ashleigh Pearson

Listen as Ashleigh Pearson from Hubbel | Aclara shared the importance of UBBA not only to the industry but to the end customer as well. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Liron Ben-Horin

Listen as Liron Ben-Horin from OneLayer explored the primary challenges enterprises face with scaling device onboarding as their PLTE/5G networks expand and how OneLayer helps to address these challenges. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Carson Zerpa

Listen as Carson Zerpa from Itron discussed the main AMI 2.0 use cases and the value propositions that he’s hearing from North American utilities. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Ron Krzoska

Listen as Ron Krzoska from Hitachi Energy shared how the UBBA Summit & Plugfest has evolved for Hitachi Energy, specifically from an application perspective. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Mitch Rappard

Listen as Mitch Rappard from Palo Alto Networks shared how Palo Alto Networks partners with utilities to help secure their networks. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest John Caselli

Listen as John Caselli from WESCO explored the major considerations needed when building out a PLTE network and how WESCO helps utilities with these deployments. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Greg McGovern

Listen as Greg McGovern from Black & Veatch shared how he has seen the industry and his utility clients progress in adopting PLTE from the UBBA Summit & Plugfest 2023 to the UBBA Summit & Plugfest 2024. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit &...

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Adam Rhodes

Listen as Adam Rhodes from Black & Veatch discussed which innovative applications he’s most excited about that will further benefit utilities using PLTE. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Mark Fecci

Listen as Mark Fecci from Motorola Solutions explored mission-critical-push-to-talk over PLTE and whether or not it could displace traditional LMR networks. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Juan Macias

Listen as Juan Macias from Duke Energy shared his insights regarding growth forecast and EOL programs and how they impact the decision for Private infrastructure and current MNOs partnerships. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Trey King

Listen as Trey King from T-Mobile shared how T-Mobile’s T-Priority and Network slicing enhance the reliability and efficiency of critical utility operations; particularly in managing smart grids, outage restoration, and emergency response.  Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Dan Bayouth

Listen as Dan Bayouth from Burns & McDonnell shared his insights on what utilities should be considering before embarking on a 5G/LTE deployment. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest Jerry Leary

Listen as Jerry Leary from Comarch shared his thoughts on the impact that AI and machine learning will have on the optimization of utility network operations. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

UBBA Unplugged Live from the 2024 UBBA Summit – Special Guest David Rieken

Listen as Dr. David Rieken from Hubbell | Aclara shared his thoughts on the impact that high bandwidth access has on meters within the utility space. Video recorded at the 2024 UBBA Summit & Plugfest in Kansas City, MO.

Nokia and SCE Transform Energy Management with Private 5G Field Area Network

(Nov 2024) Nokia and Southern California Edison (SCE) have set a new benchmark for utility innovation with the launch of North America’s first private 5G Field Area Network (FAN), earning the 2024 TeckNexus “Private Network Excellence in Energy and Utilities” award. Read the full story...

UBBA Summit Thought Leadership – Cybersecurity

Listen as utility industry leaders share thoughts on the importance of cybersecurity and private LTE at the 2023 Summit & Plugfest

UBBA Members Discuss Modernizing Utility Telecom

2023 UBBA Summit & Plugfest Voice of the Members

The Value of UBBA Membership

2023 Voice of the Members

Presentations from 2022 UBBA Summit & Plugfest – Tuesday Tech Sessions

Each utility strategy is different and UBBA is the best resource for utilities to ask questions and collaborate about broadband solutions to meet the coverage, resilience, reliability, and cybersecurity requirements for their utility.  Reliable and resilient communications are critical for power utility operations.  The loss...

T&D World Article: Connect to Protect: Private Communications Networks

May 4, 2022  –  SDG&E deploys a private communications network to monitor and maintain its grid in real time, so it can reduce its wildfire risk. by Omar Zevallos, SDG&E More than half of the largest wildfires in California’s history have occurred in the past...

News from Nokia: EPB Launches America’s First Community-wide 25 Gig Internet Service

Aug 24, 2022: EPB Launches America’s First Community-wide 25 Gig Internet Service READ MORE: https://epb.com/newsroom/press-releases/epb-launches-americas-first-community-wide-25-gig-internet-service/ 

OneLayer whitepaper “Emerging Attack Vectors & Techniques”

OneLayer – Emerging Attack Vectors and Techniques

Recorded Webinar: As your private network rolls out, is your SIM management ready to scale

The Urgent Need for a Licensed Broadband Spectrum Allocation for Critical Infrastructure

More than 3,000 electric utilities across the US are each managing multiple—sometimes more than a dozen—wireless networks in support of grid operations, workforce management, and customer service. Typically, these networks have been developed in an ad hoc manner for application-centric purposes.

UBBA Voice of the Members: Koustuv Ghoshal

The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is a video from Koustuv Ghoshal from Ericson.

UBBA Voice of the Members: David Allen

The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is a video from David Allen from UScellular. Click below to watch this…

UBBA Voice of the Members: Mauricio Subieta

The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is one from Dr. Mauricio Subieta from Nokia. Click below to watch this…

UBBA Voice of the Members: Griselda Aldrete

Griselda Aldrete from Alliant Energy and one of the new UBBA Board of Directors shares her Voice of the Member. Click below to watch this UBBA Voice of the Members segment:

UBBA Voice of the Members: Ron Brady

The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is a video from Ron Brady of Xcel Energy. Click below to watch…

Rural Broadband Playbook

This document provides a high-level overview of the options for utility support of broadband internet service deployment to underserved customers. While electric utilities of all types are considering or making investments in their own private wired and wireless broadband communications infrastructure primarily.

UBBA Voice of the Members: Rob Schwartz

The 2021 UBBA Summit & Plugfest welcomed nearly 300 utility industry leaders to St. Louis for two days of thought leadership and technical testing. While in St. Louis we captured many voices of our members sharing their thoughts on the Alliance. Here is one from Rob Schwartz, CEO of Anterix. Click below to watch this…

The Inherent Risks of Doing Nothing

Today’s utilities are becoming more and more dependent on data, real-time data, to operate their networks safely and efficiently. Many utilities are currently evaluating the automation and modernization of their communications systems.

Video: NYPA successfully tests drone flights using Private LTE wireless network for close-up inspections of power lines

UBBA members Nokia and NYPA share video of PLTE test for drone inspections

Power Grids, Meet Strong Networks

We’re on the verge of a very different world for utilities as they face a dramatic business and technological transformation. Power, communications, transportation, infrastructure and even public safety are becoming interconnected and interdependent as utilities develop the intelligent grid.

Nokia Video: Converged Private LTE and IP/MPLS FAN

Video: NYPA successfully tests drone flights using Private LTE wireless network for close-up inspections of power lines

Whitepaper Storm Recovery Story from WESCO/Anixter

When Hurricane Laura made landfall early in the morning on August 27, 2020 with sustained winds of 150 mph, and higher gusts as it roared ashore, it became one of the top five hurricanes overall to hit the U.S.

Nokia Press Release: Service offering diversification with private wireless – QTnet (Kyushu Electric Power) in Japan

Video: NYPA successfully tests drone flights using Private LTE wireless network for close-up inspections of power lines

Private LTE Broadband Changes the Game for Utilities

The electric utility business is fundamentally more complex today than it was even five years ago: once primarily the supplier of centrally-produced power, the utility is now the master orchestrator of a multitude of distributed energy resources. Enabling the modern grid requires a solid foundation of certain strategic technologies, including private wireless broadband communications.

Webinar: Building Momentum for the 900 PLTE Ecosystem

Moderated by Mark Poulin (Anterix) and featuring a panel of industry experts, including, Faramarz Maghsoodlou (Qualcomm Technologies), Jitender Vohra (Telit), Warren Westrup (Sierra Wireless), and Brundaban Sahoo (Motorola Solutions).

Anterix’s Industry Insights Roundtable: Visioneering the Private Networked Grid of the Future

Hosted by Pete Tseronis (Dots & Bridges) with a distinguished panel of industry experts and practitioners, Andy Bordine (Anterix), Ahmad Faruqui (Brattle Consulting), Rick Schmidt (Black & Veatch), and Scott Schoepel (Motorola).

Anterix’s Industry Insights Roundtable: Visioneering the Private Networked Grid of the Future Part II

Hosted by Pete Tseronis (Dots & Bridges) with special guests Bruce Albright (Burns & McDonnell), Bobbi Harris (UBBA), Chris Trabold (General Electric).

Anterix Webinar: The Network Effect of Grid Communications

Join Guidehouse Analyst Richelle Elberg, author of Private LTE Networks Position Utilities for Industry Transformation, Alan McIntyre of Southern Company, Chris Guttman-McCabe, Chief Regulatory and Communications Officer of Anterix, and moderator Kevin Malloy, Vice President of Customer Solutions and Strategic Development of Anterix, to hear more from them about the concept of a future grid communications network effect.

Keeping the Lights On with Dedicated LTE

A case study of how Southern Linc, the wireless communications network backed by the strength and reliability of Southern Company, transitioned to a highly reliable LTE network while meeting strict security requirements.

Interview with Craig Tedrow, Senior Product Manager at GE’s Grid Solutions Business, and vice-chair of the Utility Broadband Alliance’s (UBBA) Business working group

I am a Senior Product Manager, within GE’s industrial communications product line, working for the MDS wireless group. My education is in electrical engineering at Geneva College, and I’ve spent 21 years executing software design and firmware development. Most of that was here at MDS doing wireless product design and development focused on the energy and industrial industries.

Interview with Allen Tharp, Senior Manager – Network Strategy, at Xcel Energy and chair of the Utility Broadband Alliance’s (UBBA) Use Cases working group

I started my career working at Motorola installing wireless systems as a field engineer/project leader, and I later returned to serve as a systems engineer manager for worldwide deployments.