Re: SCADA (or: How I learned to love receiving FWW in digest form)

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Bret Watson <[email protected]> wrote:

> <sarcasm>but it is so convenient when the operations guy can read emails
> whilst managing the system . Oh and management really likes to get those
> real-time pretty graphs...</sarcasm>
>
> Its amazing, but somehow SCADA always ends up getting connected - or even
> worse - running over corporate networks... Currently working with a critical
> infrastructure provider - exactly that problem, and their corporate strategy
> is to integrate it all further :(
>

My operators are able to do all of that while watching the plant.
There are two switches in every network box in the plant - one is a
cisco switch on the "admin" network and the other is something else on
the process network. Each switch has it's own fiber run back to the
data center.