Big IT in Little China

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A recent $300 million agreement between OSIsoft and FibrLink Communications has allowed OSIsoft's real-time technology products to support real-time management, integrated data, and other communications networking solutions in China's power industry. I have no idea what that means, either, but $300 million is a lot of greenbacks, and China is pretty big too.

The practical applications here for Chinese people are that the electric utility industry and telecommunications sectors in China will receive major upgrades. Whether or not the everyday Chinaman will see these benefits is uncertain, but don't be too surprised if we see Xiang DeZhou's Death Metal Hour in Mandarin on MTV 4 in, say, 7 years or so.

OSIsoft has been part of China’s 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 vast amounts of real-time data traveling over FibrLink networks across the country’s industrial footprint.

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