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Ericsson wins 2012 Smart Grid Product of the Year Award; Ericsson Smart Grid Communications Management acknowledged by TMC for contributing to the advancement of smart grid technologies
[June 04, 2013]

Ericsson wins 2012 Smart Grid Product of the Year Award; Ericsson Smart Grid Communications Management acknowledged by TMC for contributing to the advancement of smart grid technologies


(M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Ericsson has been awarded a 2012 Smart Grid Product of the Year Award for its Smart Grid Communications Management solution. Sponsored by SmartGrid.TMCnet.com, a TMC and Crossfire Media website, the Smart Grid Product of the Year Award recognizes those products that have contributed to the advancement of smart grid technologies and reflect the diverse range of innovation driving this market.



"Ericsson has provided sophisticated Plan to Provision support solutions to communications service providers for decades, and now these solutions are being implemented at utilities with tremendous benefit in both their telecom and power operations," said Elisabetta Romano, Vice President and Head of OSS and Service Enablement, Business Unit Support Solutions, Ericsson. "Utilities that have deployed Ericsson communications management solutions are able to uncover grid-impacting network issues faster, thereby improving the efficiency, reliability and sustainability of their power networks." The Ericsson Smart Grid Communications Management solution helps utilities optimally deploy and manage multitechnology and multivendor networks through comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end management of increasingly complex communications infrastructures. As a result, power companies can make the power grid more efficient, reliable, safe and secure through intelligent operations of the underlying smart grid communications networks. Notes to editors Download high-resolution photos and broadcast-quality video at www.ericsson.com/press .

About Smart Grid Smart Grid is the leading website dedicated to the rapidly developing technologies that enable and harness smart grids, with particular emphasis on applications, products and software for improving residential, business, institutional and facilities' power consumption.


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Ericsson is a world-leading provider of communications technology and services. We are enabling the Networked Society with efficient real-time solutions that allow us all to study, work and live our lives more freely, in sustainable societies around the world.

Our offering comprises services, software and infrastructure within Information and Communications Technology for telecom operators and other industries. Today 40 percent of the world's mobile traffic goes through Ericsson networks and we support customers' networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscriptions.

We are more than 110,000 people working with customers in more than 180 countries. Founded in 1876, Ericsson is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2012 the company's net sales were SEK 227.8 billion (USD 33.8 billion). Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX, Stockholm and NASDAQ, New York stock exchanges.

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