Managed Networks for the Utilities Industry
With Hughes’ managed networks for utilities, your business benefits from secure, always-on connectivity to manage critical infrastructure, monitor remote assets, and ensure uninterrupted service delivery.
Our extensive expertise enables us to deliver tailored network services that address your unique sector challenges. With these trustworthy, scalable network solutions, we support operational efficiency, compliance and agility, allowing you to fulfil the rigorous demands of the utilities industry.
Keeping Utilities Connected, Efficient and Secure
Utilities operate in complex, high-stakes environments where real-time data transmission, remote monitoring, and secure communication are essential. Every connection point across your network must be reliable and protected, from IoT-enabled sensors, smart grids and remote field operations to large-scale, urban control centres.
Downtime or security breaches don’t just disrupt your operations; they can affect thousands who rely on these essential services every day.
Hughes delivers managed networks for utilities that ensure high-performance and resilient connectivity, keeping your operations secure, adaptable, and always reliable for both you and your customers.
Wireless WAN for Flexible Connectivity and Remote Reliability
Operating in remote or hard-to-reach locations is commonplace in the utilities industry, and fixed-line connectivity is often impractical. Hughes Optimised Wireless Network Edge (OWNE) provides a rapidly deployable, flexible solution that ensures continuous connectivity for field operations, substations, and mobile workforces, even in the most isolated regions.
As a hybrid wireless WAN solution, OWNE leverages 4G, 5G, satellite, and microwave to provide top-grade connectivity in challenging environments. Offering fast deployment with zero-touch provisioning, it connects your users and sites within days instead of weeks. Added backup connectivity ensures a continuous service, avoiding costly disruptions in the event of terrestrial infrastructure failure.
Managed SD-WAN for Optimised Connectivity Across Utility Sites
With remote facilities, field teams operating across vast geographic areas and IoT monitoring systems delivering real-time data, your operations depend on excellent availability and high-speed connectivity. A single network failure can disrupt service delivery, asset management, and critical infrastructure monitoring.
Hughes Managed SD-WAN dynamically manages traffic across multiple connections and prioritises mission-critical applications, such as grid monitoring, SCADA systems, and emergency response communications. This ensures high performance across all your locations, even where terrestrial coverage is limited. As a software-based solution, it can be easily overlaid on your existing WAN infrastructure, supporting migration from legacy infrastructure.
With our managed SD-WAN taking care of your network performance and availability, your operations benefit from minimised downtime alongside enhanced efficiency and agility for growth and expansion.
Managed SASE for Secure, High-Performance Utility Networks
Far-reaching legacy infrastructure in remote areas combined with strict demand for visibility and efficiency create unique network challenges in the utilities industry. When digital technology, such as IoT devices, cloud-based applications and SaaS, are incorporated, optimising managed networks for utilities becomes even more complex.
Hughes Managed SASE delivers a cloud-native solution that simplifies network management and security while ensuring fast, protected connectivity across your widespread infrastructure and assets. With enhanced traffic management, trusted network security, and the agility to adopt multi-cloud architecture, Managed SASE ensures your network operates as reliably as the essential services you deliver.
Safeguarding Infrastructure with Cybersecurity for Utilities
The prominence of your sector's operations already makes your utility company a prime target for cyber-attacks. This threat level increases when advances such as smart technology, automation, and IoT devices are adopted. Robust protection of your customer data, grid infrastructure, and remote monitoring and communication systems is crucial, not only for maintaining a reliable service but also for ensuring safety and compliance.
Hughes provides best-in-class cybersecurity solutions that address your industry's heightened vulnerabilities and regulations.
Our Security Operations Centre (SOC) provides 24/7 threat monitoring while managed firewalls, zero-trust approach and real-time security analytics work together to detect and neutralise threats before they cause harm. Designed to meet stringent regulatory standards, our cybersecurity solutions strengthen your network's resilience against increasingly sophisticated and expanding threats.
Why Hughes? Trusted Network Solutions for the Utilities Sector
Network reliability, security, and scalability are critical when delivering managed networks for the utilities industry. Hughes brings decades of expertise in network management, cybersecurity, and managed services, helping your utility company protect its infrastructure and deliver vital, uninterrupted services to your customers.
With 24/7 support and proactive network monitoring, Hughes takes the complexity out of network management. Focusing on reliability and forward-thinking, we provide future-ready solutions that help power successful operations, support growth and keep your company competitive.
Let’s talk about how Hughes can support your next project.