Wireless Communication Across 10,000 Lakes
Transmission & Distribution World - December 2008
Deployment of a broadband Internet protocol communications network provides Minnesota cooperatives with a Smart Grid foundation
A Group of More Than a Dozen Distribution Cooperatives Across Minnesota are now connected to a private, licensed 700-MHz wireless broadband IP communications network. The system has been deployed across most of Minnesota, the “Land of 10,000 Lakes” (the state's nickname), a 55,000-sq mile (142,449-sq km) service territory.