Issue 75
Formal title: Use of Internet Protocol (IP) address based communication methods for Central Volume Allocation (CVA) Metering Systems
Current Status
British Telecom (BT) has confirmed its intention to switch off the PSTN infrastructure by 2025. This is currently used to communicate with CVA Metering Systems. The Circuit Switch Data (CSD) capability over the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network (otherwise known as 2G), is also expected to become less supported over the coming years and to be switched off some time between by 2025.
SSE requires the Issue group to consider whether public or private (Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)) IP should be used to communicate with CVA Metering Systems.
Progression
Issue 75 was raised by SSE Networks on 28 November 2018. The first Issue Group meeting was held on 31 January 2019 and the second took place on 23 May 2019.
The Issue group unanimously agreed that CVA-registered Metering systems should be able to utilise IP-based communications and that the BSC Services Agreement should be amended to reflect this.
The final Issue Report was presented to the BSC Panel at its meeting on 13 June 2019.
This Issue is now considered closed.