The Advantages of an Integrated and Private Multi-Tier Network

As the industry’s only integrated multi-tier architecture, Trilliant provides Smart Grid solutions unlike any other system. The unique ability to provide wireless mesh communications for private networking that extends from distribution to metering to consumers, Trilliant’s Smart Grid solutions showcase a wide variety of distinct benefits:

• Proven Solutions – With 25 years of experience, Trilliant’s products have been proven in production Smart Grid networks around the world.
• Broadband Capacity – Not only the bandwidth and latency guarantees required for each Smart Grid communications networking tier, but also the ability to selectively scale WAN and NAN capacity as  bandwidth requirements increase.
• Complete Coverage – The ability to provide seamless coverage for the entire Smart Grid – from urban to suburban to rural – in autonomously self-forming and self-balancing WAN and NAN mesh networks that easily and flexibly extends coverage across service territories.
• Open Standards – Smart Grid solutions based on open standards to enable interoperability and longevity.
• Security – The end-to-end private network allows utilities to ensure all security aspects – privacy, confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, authorization, and accountability – across their entire Smart Grid. The additional capability of providing end-to-end virtual private networking and per-application Quality-of-Service (QoS) controls ensures Smart Grid application security and performance across the entire communications infrastructure.
• Reliability – Mesh networking provides self-healing as an inherent aspect of the WAN, NAN, and HAN tiers so that the network automatically and dynamically responds to any disruption or failure by routing around the problem.
• Scalability – Although integrated into a single solution, the SecureMesh architecture provides the modularity required to scale capacity and extend coverage as required.
• Control – The integrated SecureMesh network gives utilities full control of its communications infrastructure – a complete end-to-end private network that can be 100% utility-owned with full control of performance and not reliant upon the policies and capabilities of a public carrier.
• Adaptability – As with any nascent industry, the Smart Grid application and communication requirements are bound to change. As more WAN, NAN, and HAN devices are deployed, the SecureMesh communications network adapts and changes as well. The throughput offered by each tier provides the headroom for growth and scalable bandwidth allows capacity to be added as required. In addition, all SecureMesh devices support over-the-air firmware upgrades to allow the introduction of new functionality and enhancements on deployed hardware.
• Legacy and Future Applications – The SecureMesh network not only supports legacy protocols such as ANSI C12.22, DNP3, and Modbus for legacy applications but also supports Internet protocols such as IPv4 and IPv6 for the next generation of distribution, metering, and consumer applications.