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  • Wednesday, Jun 3rd
    8:30 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    The Case for Packet Transition: Rethinking Utility Transport Before Constraints Force the Decision
    Location: CC - L100F
    Speaker: Glenn Purcell – The Shpigler Group
    Speaker: Josh Carlson – The Shpigler Group
    Telecom/Packet Transition Track
    Sponsored By 
  • Wednesday, Jun 3rd
    9:00 AM - 9:30 AM CT
    PG&E's SONET to Packet Journey
    Location: CC - L100F
    Speaker: Richard Harper – West Monroe
    Speaker: Arun Orn – PG&E
    Speaker: Clint Struth – SCI Networks USA Inc.
    Telecom/Packet Transition Track
    Sponsored By 
  • Wednesday, Jun 3rd
    9:40 AM - 10:40 AM CT
    Telecommunication Network Deployments - Planned vs Ad-Hoc: Lessons Learned
    Location: CC - L100F
    Moderator: Travis J. Phifer – Tri-State G&T
    Speaker: Chris Peyatt – Nebraska Public Power District
    Speaker: Matt Weston – Nebraska Public Power District
    Telecom/Packet Transition Track
    Sponsored By 
  • Thursday, Jun 4th
    9:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
    Case Study: Eliminating Voice Downtime at Utility Scale: How WEC Energy Group Engineered True Active-Active Voice Resiliency with MetroSwitch
    Location: CC - L100F
    Speaker: Eric Fuchs – MetroSwitch Technologies, Inc.
    Speaker: Steven Liegl – WEC Energy Group
    Telecom/Packet Transition Track
    Sponsored By 
  • Thursday, Jun 4th
    10:20 AM - 11:20 AM CT
    GPS & PNT: A Single Point of Failure for CI?
    Location: CC - L100F
    Speaker: Dana A. Goward, FRIN (he/him/his) – Resilient Navigation & Timing Foundation
    Telecom/Packet Transition Track
    Sponsored By 
  • Thursday, Jun 4th
    2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    Inter-utility Packet Handoff Without TDM or SONET While Keeping Cyber Happy
    Location: CC - L100F
    Moderator: Travis J. Phifer – Tri-State G&T
    Speaker: Shaun Skidmore, PE – Idaho Power Company
    Telecom/Packet Transition Track
    Sponsored By 
  • Thursday, Jun 4th
    2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CT
    Precise Time Sync: Empowering Power Utilities with Next-Gen WAN/LAN Synchronization
    Location: CC - L100F
    Speaker: Guilhermme Lisboa (he/him/his) – Belden
    Speaker: Davy Haegdorens (he/him/his) – Belden
    Telecom/Packet Transition Track
    Sponsored By