• Simplifies physical and virtual networks, reducing cost while increasing manageability
• Scales better and more rapidly, with lower infrastructure cost per server
• Delivers greater flexibility with virtualized environments for development and testing
• Increases an organization’s responsiveness to changing workloads and business conditions through increased flexibility

The Cisco UCS takes advantage of Cisco’s comprehensive expertise in delivering highly optimized architectures and dynamic balancing of resources to deliver world-record-setting virtualization performance that simplifies physical and virtual networks, scales easily and rapidly, delivers greater performance for virtualized environments, and increases an organization’s responsiveness through increased flexibility.

Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) provides continuous acoustic measurements along the entire length of an optical fiber, effectively turning the fiber into a sensor. Perimeter intrusion detection, seismic/slip detection, leak detection, and distributed flow detection can be enabled.

The technology provides near real-time results with location accuracy, greatly enhancing detection and the ability to respond and resolve.

Fiber provides high bandwidth connectivity options allowing secure convergence of operational and multiservice traffic, as well as introducing newer operational technologies such as distributed optical acoustic sensing (DAS) for pipeline monitoring, or using additional fiber pairs or wavelengths to provide revenue-generation services by leasing them.

Wireless and cellular technologies can be use as a backup to wired, or in locations where fiber is unavailable.

Converged operational and multiservice application deployments are still possible, with optimized design to ensure operational traffic is given priority.

The deployment of wireless and cellular technologies and wired in the same communications network infrastructure is also possible.

• ISA99 / IEC 62443 compliant
• Scalable, defense-in-depth techniques, meeting the unique security requirements of a geographically distributed system
• Virtualization across control center, WAN, and station networks

• Reduced system integration needs and costs
• Ability to extend pipeline capacity expansion with no downtime
• Simplified and validated Infrastructure for on-time project execution
• Fit for purpose: optimized space and power requirements

Devices support industrial protocols and include specific enhancements for CIP, Modbus, Profinet and GOOSE, leverage Cisco IOS for industry leading security and communication features, and are hardened to ensure high reliability in extreme environments.

Industrial Wireless with native ISA100 or WirelessHART protocols can be leveraged to support wireless industrial sensor deployments

In addition, business applications such as voice, remote video and corporate data are supported.