OSIsoft has signed an enterprise-wide agreement with FibrLINK Communications Co., Ltd., a State Grid Corporation of China company. FibrLINK will use the real-time performance products to support real-time management, integrated data and communication networking solutions and services to the power industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The enterprise-wide agreement is valued in excess of $300 million dollars of OSIsoft products that will be installed throughout the electric utility industry, power grid, and telecommunications data centers in PRC. The agreement spans a seven-year period in which OSIsoft and FibrLINK will work together to help support and sustain continuing benefits that utility customers have come to expect and enjoy from OSIsoft products across the globe. The companies will work together to deliver reliable and secure industrial systems and solutions for the power sector.
In the past several years, FibrLINK has been a part of China's high-profile national telecommunications engineering projects, providing maintenance and support services for backbone transmission networks, telephone switch networks, satellite networks and data WANs to the power industry. OSIsoft will add a secure means of managing and delivering the vast amounts of real-time data traveling across FibrLINK networks across the wide expanse of China's industrial footprint to facilitate better reliability and performance improvement for supplying power.
"OSIsoft real-time products and solutions have proven to be a necessary component of the infrastructure of utility customers in PRC. It is with great pleasure that we make this announcement today to further enhance the service that we provide to our mutual users," said Yuen Kong, chief architect, FibrLINK. "By combining our two companies' strengths, we aim to equip our customers with the necessary real-time data architecture to facilitate business process in a very fast evolving power market in China."
FibrLINK has enjoyed significant momentum over the past few years. Recently, FibrLINK was showcased as a global telecommunications provider for state-of-the-art MPLS Networks to support high availability real-time data driven service orientated network business models by CISCO Systems at their global networks show in Cannes, France.
"OSIsoft and FibrLINK are committed to providing China's energy and utility leaders with a secure, real-time solution for managing the power grid and other critical infrastructure," said Dr. Patrick Kennedy, CEO and founder, OSIsoft.
