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Simplify Smart Grid with SOA Gateways

Use a SOA Gateway to Simplify Smart Grid Data Integration & Access Control

Deploy industry ‐leading SOA integration technology to ensure smart grid security and compliance

The Move to Smart Grid Recently, the energy and utilities industry has been transforming itself to capitalize on the opportunities presented by smart grid technology. The digital and wireless capabilities of smart meters bring the promise of greater efficiency, reliability and visibility into the operation of the power grid. However, they also introduce vulnerabilities, risks and compliance challenges associated with processing, integrating and sharing data across internal silos and applications.

The Role of SOA Gateways in Smart Grid

Smart meters

generate

real

‐time

data,

using

proprietary

protocols

that

need

to

be

transformed

into

formats understood by different internal applications. Data needs to be enriched or redacted to meet governance rules and routed at high speed across disparate information and application silos. Access to data needs to be tightly controlled and censored based on a requestor’s entitlements, in order to satisfy regulatory requirements.

All these tasks can be satisfied at high data volumes by SOA Gateways able to:

1. Ease integration through translation of network protocols and data formats

2. Protect connectivity through access control, encryption and digital signatures

3. Optimize traffic flow with high ‐throughput, high ‐concurrency message processing

Below are three use cases that illustrate how these value points are applicable to energy and utilities companies embarking on smart grid initiatives.

Use Case 1 – Gating Smart Meter Data

A SOA Gateway can be deployed as meter data’s entry point into enterprise IT systems. Machine ‐to ‐machine (M2M) data collectors can connect to the Gateway over lightweight and secure channels. The Gateway will then transform and transmit data to the enterprise systems in the required formats.

Immediate Benefits

Saves integration costs for development Supports the security model for smart meters

Scales to handle increased traffic

Long‐Term Benefits

Allows a centralized access point for detecting and filtering meter events, to help improve grid reliability and exception handling

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Use Case 2 – Gate Internal Access to Data The Gateway can also be used to protect access to key enterprise systems that are used by CSR, employee and partner channels from inside and outside enterprise boundaries .

Immediate Benefits

Role‐based, multi ‐channel access control enforces enterprise security policies using existing security infrastructure

Long‐Term Benefits

Loose coupling of front ‐end systems cuts cost on migration of legacy business support systems (e.g. billing, monitoring) to new, smart grid ‐aware systems and processes

Use Case 3 – Simplify Integration & Mediation Additionally, the Gateway can provide a simple configuration ‐driven approach to translating, routing and integrating data across different application silos.

Immediate Benefits Reduces coding and professional services costs

Long‐Term Benefits Improves repeatability and integration agility

Layer 7’s SecureSpan SOA Gateway – Simplifying Smart Grid Initiatives

Energy and utilities companies have already started to take advantage of SOA Gateways in smart grid patterns. Layer 7’s SecureSpan SOA Gateway is the industry leader and offers unparalleled smart grid functionality. The SecureSpan Gateway has been used simultaneously in all of the above scenarios.

The SecureSpan Gateway can be deployed in the DMZ or inside the enterprise, as a physical appliance or a virtual machine, on ‐premise or in the Cloud. This flexibility means that SecureSpan can support all Gateway needs and maximize smart grid benefits for companies across the energy and utilities sector.

Key Features

Governance & Security

SOA Governance Runtime enforcement of governance policies Centralized SLA enforcement

Transport and protocol mediation Service virtualization

Identity ‐ & Message ‐

Level Security

Identity ‐based access to services/operations

Management of cross ‐domain security

Advanced cryptography

XML content filtering and threat protection Mediation & Translation

Support for Key Standards/Protocols

Supported standards include XML, SOAP, REST, AJAX, OAuth, XPath, XSLT, WSDL, XML Schema, LDAP, SAML, FIPS 140 ‐2, Kerberos, W3C XML Signature, SSL/TLS, HTTP/HTTPS, MQ Series, Tibco EMS, FTP, WS‐Security, WS‐Trust, WS‐Federation and XACML

Management & Integration

Asset Management Operations console Policy migration Services reporting

Disaster recovery Management API for integration with existing

third ‐party management tools

API Management API publication

Optional developer

management

portal

Security and OAuth ‐based access control

Usage metrics

and

reporting

Form Factors

Hardware Active ‐active clusterable, mirrored hot ‐swappable drives, multi ‐core 1U server

Software Solaris 10 for x86 and Niagara, SUSE Linux, Red Hat Linux 4.0/5.0

Virtual & Cloud VMware/ESX (VMware Ready certified)

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