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PCN Rolls Out Conductive Technology to Help Critical Building and Transportation Networks Impacted by Floods & Electrical Surges of Hurricane Sandy
[November 16, 2012]

PCN Rolls Out Conductive Technology to Help Critical Building and Transportation Networks Impacted by Floods & Electrical Surges of Hurricane Sandy


Nov 16, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- PCN announced that it has released a special purposed packaged system to support end-customers, OEMs, & Integrators whose Serial data networks have been impacted by salt water floods and electrical surges of Hurricane Sandy.



According to a release, without having to replace any wires, the system enables rapid connectivity and re-commissioning of automation and control networks by transforming legacy copper wires already in place.

PCN is a communications company that designs, develops and manufactures rugged networking products. Its products are based on patented "physical layer" conductive media technologies. Key to the technology is a process called "dynamic adaptive channeling" that manages the physics across all aspects of a wire in order to maintain critical networks operational. Key to the products is their ability to drop into any serial based infrastructure for an auto-configuring plug and play requirement.


Floods and electrical surges usually require the change out of legacy wiring due to the physical properties of the wire being impacted to a point where critical automation and control networks cannot be utilized. Reasons could be that the wire is no longer in specification, that only parts of a network will function, or that existing water in walls and floors will impact future functionality. The system being shipped by PCN to customers in the Northeast takes these and other factors into account.

The geography of the region also creates burdens in replacing copper. This is due to hard to reach infrastructure within New York, New Jersey and other locations in the Northeast. There are a lot of historic properties where wiring is difficult to replace including locations in basements, high rises, subways and in other areas not easily accessible. This not only creates a very time consuming process but an extremely expensive one for network owners, operators and integrators.

With conductive management processes happening in real-time, the technology by PCN scans disaster impacted wiring and constantly transforms it into communications infrastructure as if it were new.

PCN is a communications company designing, developing and manufacturing Serial and Ethernet networking devices integrated with conductive media technologies.

More information: www.pcntechnology.com ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected]))

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