Skip to main content
2024 UTC Telecom & Technology Conference Main banner
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.
Back
ViewAttendees 4

2024 UTC Telecom & Technology

PLTE

Implementing a Private Satellite Network

Thursday, May 23, 2024
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT
Location: Mobile Convention Center - Room 201A

Sponsored By 

    Utility member(s)

  • Dewey Day

    Director, Strategic Programs
    Pacific Gas and Electric, California, United States

    • Vendor Member(s)

  • Jena Blazer (she/her/hers)

    Director of Products and Services
    X2nSat
    Petaluma, California, United States

    PDF Slides

    • Moderator(s)

  • Kyle Cormier

    Director - Telecommunication Systems
    Salt River Project (SRP)
    Phoenix, Arizona, United States

PG&E’s private satellite network, since its inception in 2021, has onboarded hundreds of terminals across various use cases and locations. In this presentation, PG&E architects and X2nSat solutions experts will discuss the following:
• Rollout status of sites onto PG&E’s satellite network and challenges faced along the way
• Network design details: how the satellite network is integrated into their overall network infrastructure (ODN/UDN)
• Technical designs and updates on new use cases for leveraging private satellite connectivity.
• High-Availability-Service (satellite with LTE failover)
• L-band/BGAN satellite replacement
• LMR backhaul over satellite

Attendees will walk away from this session with a firsthand account of Layer 2 and 3 integration between PG&Es network and the satellite network. They will learn How VLANs are used to separate traffic and bring it into the appropriate networks within PG&E. We will also discuss how new use cases are tested and brought into production.