Monday, January 9, 2023

NZ's Powerco picks Juniper + NEC for AI-enabled Wi-Fi

Powerco, New Zealand’s second largest gas and electricity distributor, selected Juniper Networks and NEC to design and deploy a new Wi-Fi network across its sites nationwide.

In this project, Powerco its replacing its incumbent solution with Juniper’s Wireless Access Points and Juniper Mist Wi-Fi Assurance. Juniper has also been Powerco’s networking backbone provider.  NEC’s partnership with Powerco includes the provision of skilled consultancy and design for multi-domain networks.

“Powerco’s mission-critical services are essential to its customers across New Zealand, and Juniper is delighted to be able to continue our long-standing partnership with them by delivering experience-first networking to its entire Wi-Fi network nationwide alongside NEC, a key global alliance partner with a well-established history in New Zealand. Our technology has been built to fundamentally leverage the operational and user benefits of the cloud and AI, and we look forward to providing Powerco with superior user experiences based on network assurance, insights and visibility into the future,” stated Ken Lord, Country Manager, New Zealand, Juniper Networks.