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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 creates the critical networking infrastructure for the Smart Grid, known as a Smart Energy Network.  Based on the Internet Protocol (IP) suite, it addresses the challenges of running multiple applications and devices on a common networking infrastructure using multiple transport technologies, dramatically improving efficiency, lowering costs and ensuring the reliable delivery of services. This smarter, more efficient grid could cut the growth rate of worldwide energy consumption by more than half over the next 15 years and drastically reduce carbon emissions.  Silver Spring Networks was named a Technology Pioneer at the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was named to the 2008 Red Herring 100, 2008 Global 250, 2008 Going Green Winner of the Energy Efficiency category and was a recipient of the GoingGreen and Brilliant Innovation Awards in 2007.  For additional information, visit www.silverspringnetworks.com.

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