Cisco CEO John Chambers on Smart Grid

May 25, 2012Cisco Smart Grid MomentumThroughout Cisco’s history, we have identified market transitions and listened closely to our customers asthey navigate these changes. Nearly 20 years ago, the Telecom industry went through a major transformationand Cisco helped service providers evolve their businesses to deliver a digital, multimedia and immersiveexperience for their customers. The key to our success was a keen focus on our customers and buildingindustry-wide partnerships to deliver the necessary business and technical solutionsToday, the energy industry is in the midst of an equally significant market transition as they modernize theelectric grid to address aging infrastructure, increase the integration of renewable energy sources, meetevolving regulatory requirements, and ensure the security of their critical assets. And doing all of these whilecontinuing to deliver power reliably and safely to their customers.Cisco is committed to the energy industry and we have been working very closely with electric utilities,standards bodies and industry partners to help address their business priorities. Establishing interoperabilityacross vendors’ solutions by means of open standards will help mitigate risk, accelerate the market and driveinnovation. The number of networked devices on the electric grid is expected to reach 55 million by 2015alone, nearly 2.5 times the number today. Our customers have told us that a secure, intelligent, and reliablecommunications infrastructure is fundamental to their grid modernization initiatives. This requires an end-to-end architectural approach across the grid, and there is no better company than Cisco - with our expertise,resources and long-term stability - to partner with utilities on this journey.Smart Grid is a strategic growth area for Cisco and we have been increasing our investment in engineering anddevelopment. In the last three years, we have created a dedicated business unit and launched new solutionsand product lines to address utility communications needs from transmission and distribution operations, tosmart meters and workforce enablement. These new solutions can be leveraged in adjacent industries thatoperate an energy infrastructure. Our business and technical architecture services have helped customersview us not just as a preferred vendor, but as a trusted strategic partner. Now, more than 250 utilities acrossthe globe have purchased or deployed Cisco Connected Grid solutions. Our customers include some of thelargest electric distribution and transmission companies in the world, such as American Electric Power, BCHydro, and Florida Power & Light in North America, Endesa, EDF and EDP in Europe, Ausgrid and ChugokuEPCO in Asia Pacific, as well as Eskom in Africa.In addition, 85% of the world’s largest utilities run their enterprise on a Cisco network, giving Cisco a trulyglobal presence. Smart Grid initiatives such as AMI, Distribution and Substation Automation, Teleprotectionand mobile workforce enablement are driving more coordination between Information (IT) and Operations

technology (OT) departments within utilities. This in turn drives greater integration with Cisco’s coretechnologies for data centers, security and collaborationCisco has more than 25 years of managing market transitions. Our ability to address customer businesspriorities across both operations and IT is unique. We remain focused on our customers’ success and will beincreasing our investment in people, resources and regions to support the energy industry.John T. ChambersChairman and CEO, Cisco

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