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Cisco Forges First Mile Wireless Solution for Oil and Gas Industry
First Mile Wireless Solution Extends Data Mobility to the Digital Oilfield
| Source: Cisco Systems, Inc.
SAN JOSE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- May 22, 2007 -- Cisco® (NASDAQ : CSCO ) today announced a new
mobility solution for the oil and gas industry, the Cisco First Mile
Wireless solution. Integrating best-in-class technologies, services,
security policies and management applications, the Cisco First Mile
Wireless solution supports the extension and augmentation of corporate
networked data to be utilized by wellhead workers stationed at desolate oil
fields and off-shore ocean oil rigs.
In doing so, the Cisco First Mile Wireless solution helps oil and gas
companies increase drilling uptime performance, improve in-field decision
making processes and reduce operation costs by transforming isolated
drilling sites to connected arms of the headquarter corporate network.
"Cisco's First Mile Wireless solution does not replace the company man or
diminish his importance," explains Massimo Insulla, Drilling and Work Over
Deputy General Manager, Petrobel. "What it does is enable the wider team to
share some of the burden with him: four eyes are better than two, and eight
are better than four. This technology gives us the opportunity to more
effectively assist the production team to reach the right decision."
Overcoming Challenges for the First Mile Wireless
Unlike a traditional enterprise campus, the challenges facing oilfield
wireless deployments increase tenfold due to harsh physical environments
where there is limited infrastructure, scarce IT resources and an abundance
of exposed, densely packed metal structures, which compounds wireless radio
frequency (RF) interference.
With the Cisco First Mile Wireless solution, oilfields and ocean rig
platforms can network SCADA controls, maintenance sensors, mobile service
workers, physical security assets, service vehicles and location service
tags, as well as integrate mobility services, such as wireless voice over
IP, video and guest access.
The standard Cisco First Mile Wireless solution is architected and
comprised of Cisco 1500 Series wireless mesh access points with specialized
blast-proof hardened cases, Cisco WCS for wireless network management,
supported by Cisco Secure Services for network security. A combination of
pre-tested and validated backhaul technologies, including Wi-Fi bridging,
WiMAX and satellite connectivity, and operation technologies and
applications complete the transformation of the oilfield from an isolated,
hard-to-reach location, to an oasis of information fully connected to
remote expertise and analysis.
Cisco lifecycle services play an integral roll in the First Mile Wireless
solution deployment. Cisco and its Wireless LAN Specialized Partners offer
a broad portfolio of end-to-end services based on proven methodologies for
planning, designing, implementing, operating and optimizing the performance
of the Cisco First Mile Wireless solution and highly secure and scalable
wireless infrastructures.
"Mobility is about empowering businesses to make better, faster and more
informed business decisions," said Ben Gibson, director of mobility
solutions, Cisco. "When data is confined it becomes stale, stagnant and
loses its inherent value. By contrast, information that is shared creates
catalysts for new ideas, methods and ways to improve processes. The Cisco
First Mile Solution helps to enable the next wave of business performance
and breakthroughs for one of the most challenging business environments,
the oil and gas industry."
More information about the Cisco First Mile Wireless solution and other
Cisco mobility solutions is available at: www.cisco.com/go/mobility.
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