The Cisco® Connected Grid portfolio of solutions is designed specifically for the harsh, rugged environments often found in the energy and utility industries. These solutions include the Cisco 2010 Connected Grid Router (CGR 2010) and the Cisco 2520 Connected Grid Switch (CGS 2520), which have been designed to support the communications infrastructure needs of the energy delivery infrastructure across the generation, transmission, and distribution sectors. This infrastructure includes utility- and customer-owned energy infrastructure such as substation applications supporting electrical transmission and distribution, renewable generation, oil and gas, water, distributed generation, co-generation, and trackside operations. The infrastructure also includes communications infrastructure for delivery applications such as transmission pipelines, distribution mains, and service lines for oil and gas and water. Designed for highly secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure, the CGR 2010 and CGS 2520 are an ideal platform to support the Smart Grid and other energy delivery infrastructure needs of customers. These ruggedized products have been extensively tested and are KEMA certified to meet challenging substation compliance standards, including IEEE 1613 and IEC 61850-3.

The 8-port Asynchronous/Synchronous Grid Router WAN Interface Card (GRWIC) provides low-speed synchronous/asynchronous serial connections supporting EIA-RS232 for the Cisco CGR 2010. The 8-port serial RS-232 GRWIC helps customers to enable applications such as legacy protocol transport, console server, and dial access server. Combining a high-density serial GRWIC with the Cisco CGR 2010 enables energy networks to transport mission-critical communication such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) over an IP network.