Global Network Resilience for the Energy Markets

Over 65 million people are employed in the energy and related sectors, accounting for almost 2% of formal employment worldwide. Half of the energy workforce is employed in clean energy technologies.  Supporting the distinct requirements of energy production, petroleum seismic processing, oil and gas data management, and green energy applications is no small task. Data is a key component in running an energy company therefore network availability is essential to support specific energy industry software applications as well as multi-terabyte data volumes behind critical activities such as seismic interpretation, well-path planning, and unconventional systems engineering.

Oil and gas companies have vast networks with large amounts of network infrastructure spread all over the world in data centers, engineering offices, manufacturing facilities, sales offices, convenience stores and gas stations.  In addition, there are many remote edge locations with IoT devices collecting and transmitting data and other mission critical information.  Edge computing is fundamental to running an efficient energy network.

Green Energy applications such as wind power, solar farms, hydropower, bioenergy, enhanced geothermal systems, and marine energy are typically remote edge locations.  These locations need constant monitoring and accessibility to ensure system availability to renewable resources creating the energy for the electrical grid, air and water heating and cooling, and stand-alone power systems.

Business Continuity for Energy

Energy is one of the most technologically advanced industries in the world.  It must conduct business in a manner that is compatible with the balanced environmental and economic needs of the communities in which it operates.  Project execution, delivery of systems, and network availability are essential to extend the reach of an energy company to operate and discover new resources.

Gearlinx™ Network Resilience Platform and failover to cellular solutions play a critical role in ensuring business continuity for energy companies.  Maximum uptime and asset accounting is essential for the business to operate.  An outage with no IT staff in the energy industry, could take support staff 7 days to travel, arrive, diagnosis, and remediate.  A Total OOB™ solution, managed by ZERO, will ensure proactive network management and visibility of network issues to enable faster remediation of connectivity as well as location-based mapping for quick decision making.

By designing critical functions and infrastructure with disaster recovery possibilities in mind, an organization can achieve business continuity with a strategy for resilience, recovery, and contingency.

Business Drivers

  • Reliable operations to reduce unplanned downtime
  • Efficient operations to lower operating costs
  • Safe operations to detect and mitigate dangerous conditions
  • Optimize operations to create a competitive differentiation

Business Needs

  • Increased speed and quality of decision making
  • Early identification and mitigation of risk
  • Intelligent analysis of information
  • Data capture and analysis in real time

Business Outcomes

  • Improved business operations
  • Leverage automation and data
  • Improved labor productivity
  • Cost reduction

Network Resilience as a Service™ for Energy.  Operational Resilience for your Business.

Gearlinx™ is essential connectivity for the energy industry who require secure, flexible, scalable solutions to match the growing needs of a global business.  Network Resilience as a Service™ enables the energy industry to scale up or scale down their Total OOB™ management requirements as the business evolves. 

Operational Resilience is simplified for the energy industry by leveraging ZERO’s cloud front-end to manage devices, locations, subscriptions, serial numbers, and warranty information.  It is all at your fingertips.

NR4400 Network Resilience Platform

The NR4400 Network Resilience Platform can be utilized in locations such as data centers, engineering offices, and sales offices.

  • Flexible subscription model 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 7 years
  • Hosts up to 16 or 48 managed serial connected devices
  • Embedded TPM 2.0 security module adds physical security to remote provisioning
  • 4G LTE and 5G options – Dual SIM with auto switching/failover
  • Support for automation of NR4400 configuration
  • Feature Containers
  • OpenConfig Streaming Telemetry
  • Zero Touch Provisioning

Duckfone™ Cellular Gateway

The Duckfone™ can be used in retail gas stations and convenience stores and many IoT applications.

  • Flexible subscription model 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 7 years
  • Hosts up to 4 managed serial connected devices
  • Global 4G LTE and 5G Options – Dual SIM with auto switching/failover
  • Vendor Neutral Extender
  • Remotely connected and powered via PoE

ZERO Cloud-Based Centralized Management

ZERO cloud-based management portal is the easy option for Total OOB™ and operational resilience.

  • Centralized Management Portal
    • Device Management
    • Location Management
    • Serial Numbers
    • Warranty Information
    • Subscription Status
  • Fleet Reporting Options
  • Simple Co-Terming Mechanism
  • Manage 3rd Party Devices
  • Easy Single Sign-On Using OpenID connect
    • Ex; log in using Microsoft 365 account

And with Gearlinx™ you can expect long product lifecycles for a lower total cost of ownership.  As long as you have an active subscription, you have an active product regardless of when it was purchased.