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Silver Spring Networks Brings Transparency to the Smart Grid

Enabling a Real-Time View into the Health of the Network with Release of UtilityIQ Network Element Manager

Redwood City, CA, September 9, 2008 - Silver Spring Networks today announced the release of its new UtilityIQ Network Element Manager (UIQ NEM) for Smart Energy Networks. UIQ NEM brings transparency to the Smart Energy Network, enabling a proactive, real time view into the health and status of the network.  UIQ NEM remains true to the open, standards-based core values of Silver Spring Networks and is compatible with legacy utility systems. 

UtilityIQ NEM is a proactive network management system that accurately portrays the health and status of the Smart Energy Network.  UIQ NEM, a new application to the UtilityIQ product suite, is integrated with other smart grid applications from Silver Spring Networks, including outage detection and advanced metering, allowing for seamless sharing of data such as events across applications.  UIQ NEM provides a centralized, advanced network management infrastructure for reliable data management, high-level network management tasks, network performance and capacity metrics and control of multiple applications.

UIQ NEM features innovative, real time event alerts that inform the network administrator before issues become major problems, anticipating faults and events that occur in the network.  UIQ NEM also provides better management of the entire Smart Energy Network as UIQ NEM manages all devices including Relays, APs and intelligent endpoints.  New features include: dashboard views of mesh status, on-demand reports for network stability, capacity, performance, and availability, charting interface that allows persistent or ad-hoc visualization of any metrics, and integration with Manager of Managers via the event forwarding interface. UIQ NEM also allows network operators to monitor and troubleshoot any Silver Spring device via its Diagnostic Console. It is built on a flexible architecture ensuring that it scales to the largest Smart Grid networks.

“The release of UIQ NEM enables our customers to more effectively manage their Smart Energy Networks, said Raj Vaswani, CTO, Silver Spring Networks.  “Taking a proactive approach to network management increases operational efficiencies. Most other AMI networks are based on proprietary technologies, and therefore are unproven to scale either functionally or with respect to network management.  Silver Spring Networks’ IP based network solution allows bringing scalable, familiar and easy to integrate IP network management technology to bear on the new challenges facing the utility industry.  UIQ NEM is just another way we are making the Smart Grid smarter.”

About Silver Spring Networks

Silver Spring Networks is a leading smart grid networking platform technology and solutions provider. We have connected over 10 million homes and businesses throughout the world with the goal of achieving greater energy efficiency for the planet. Our innovative products enable utilities to gain efficiencies,integrate renewable energy sources and empower customers to monitor and manage energy consumption. Silver Spring Networks’ utility clients include Baltimore Gas & Electric, CitiPower & Powercor, Florida Power & Light, Jemena Electricity Networks Limited, Pacific Gas & Electric and Pepco Holdings, Inc. among others.  For more information please visit www.silverspringnet.com.

Media Contact:
Silver Spring Networks
Lisa Magnuson
lisamag@silverspringnet.com
415-531-9199