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How optical transport technology advancements benefit utilities

Summary

How optical transport technology advancements benefit utilities

Communications networks have strategic importance for power utilities working towards key operational and business objectives such as:

  • Grid modernization and IT/OT convergence
  • Network funding and cost control
  • Network resiliency and security.

Advancements in optical networking technology provide essential support for these objectives. They can help utilities monitor and control their grids, improve service availability, optimize cost and grow revenue.

Join Nokia technology evangelists for a webinar that explores key optical transport advancements and their value to power utilities. You will learn about innovative optical networking use cases, including:

  • Using fiber optic cables as sensors to detect nearby threats to communication integrity, including construction equipment and seismic events
  • Using AI policy-driven automation to improve link restoration and network resiliency
  • Leveraging optical transponder advancements to enable massive capacity, extended reach and physical miniaturization
  • Using optical networks to interconnect data centers, either owned by the utility or as a service to customers along the utility’s right of way
  • Ensuring security in the quantum age through multilayer cryptography.
 

Topics covered

 

Speakers

Kurt Raaflaub

Director of Solution Marketing, Optical Networks
Nokia

 

Kurt serves as the Director of Solution Marketing at Nokia, where he combines his extensive expertise in service providers and industry verticals to drive industry leadership alongside Nokia’s partners. Before joining Nokia, he held key marketing and leadership roles at Adtran and Infinera. Kurt is dedicated to advocating for next-generation technologies that empower transformative core-to-door optical networking solutions.

Chris Janson

Market Advisor, Network Infrastructure,
Nokia

 

Chris is a market advisor in Nokia’s Network Infrastructure group. He follows trends in optical networking and security technologies and their application to enterprise and other network operators. He has long contributed to the communications equipment and semiconductor fields through engineering and marketing roles. Chris enjoys giving back to the community through teaching engineering courses and serving on volunteer boards. In between that, he can be found running, riding bikes or windsurfing on Cape Cod or Maui.

 

Moderator

 

Overview

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Original Air-Date: 2025-11-04

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Time: On-Demand

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Duration: 1 hour

 

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