Whether your company is planning a broadband deployment or not, connecting your substations with state of the art fiber will allow you to do Signalling, Control And Data Acquisition in real time, and also deploy Smart Meters. This is a great first step and can help monetize your fiber deployment right away. You just build the substation to substation connections, leveraging your existing aerial infrastructure. The key is to build this backbone network with a future customer or member distribution network in mind.
