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2026 UTC Telecom & Technology

Telecom/Packet Transition Track

PG&E's SONET to Packet Journey

Wednesday, June 3, 2026
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM CT
Location: CC - L100F

Sponsored By 

    Speaker(s)

  • Richard Harper

    Senior Principal
    West Monroe
    Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • AO

    Arun Orn

    Solution Architect
    PG&E

  • Clint Struth

    Principal Engineer & Director
    SCI Networks USA Inc.
    Calgary, Alberta, Canada

PG&E started the SONET to Packet journey in 2020 and is now nearly complete with migrating over 1,000 critical Protection and SCADA circuits to the new solution. In this presentation the team will explain the need for this change but also go into detail on the planning , building and then cutover processes.



Even though this leg of the journey is nearly complete, the journey is not over. The team is already planning for enhanced services, such as a new clocking strategy as well as leveraging multiple paths, for routing critical circuits, that were not possible with SONET. The team will also discuss what processes had to be changed to manage the new solution going forward.