My TN Connection

The IEEE Power & Energy Society recently held its annual General Meeting on July 25th – July 29th, in Minneapolis, MN. The topic of this year’s meeting was: “Power Systems Engineering in Challenging Times”. Being a member of the IEEE and having the event in our backyard this year offered the opportunity for Chris Koch, a Principal Architect at Transition Networks, to attend this multi-day event.

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As Transition Networks continues to expand its broad industrial portfolio, we are offering more and more fully-hardened Ethernet switches and media converters with certifications required for many varied vertical industries.

Recently, our High Port-count Industrial Managed switch, SISTM1040-262E-LRT, received GL Certification. Now, I know that we have all heard the term “GL Certified” used before. But what exactly does it mean? (more…)

Why Smart Grid?

The following Introduction to Smart Grid presentation features Transition Applications Engineer, Glenn Buck. Topics include traditional grid operation, Smart Grid components, and the five evolutionary steps to achieving the Smart Grid. To view the entire session at your own pace, follow the directions below.

Please note: by clicking on the image below, a separate window will launch containing the presentation.

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Since the 2003 Northeast Power Black-out, which took out power in 8 States and some areas of Canada, the momentum has been building to accelerate development of a 21st century Utility grid. Recently, the Recovery Act allocated $4.5 billion for Utilities to invest in modernizing the grid. So what does this mean, if anything? (more…)

Why Authentication Matters
Like a passport or a driver’s license, an SSL Certificate or SSH Key is issued by a trusted source, known as the Certificate Authority (CA). Many CA’s will verify the domain name and the existence of your ownership of the domain name, by issuing digital certificates that contain a public key and the identity of the owner. This certificate is also an attestation by the CA that the public key contained in the certificate belongs to the person, organization, server or other entity noted in the certificate.

HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. It is server software which provides the ability to “secure” transactions that take place on the World Wide Web (www). If a website is running off a HTTPS server you can type in HTTPS instead of HTTP in the URL section of your browser to enter into the “secured mode”. HTTPS is often offered by financial institutions to support their online banking offerings in order to verify that the information being passed between your PC and their server is “secure”. (more…)