Smart Grid traffic analysis

According to my recent study on Smart Grid and the Report to NIST on the Smart Grid Interoperability Standards Roadmap (2009-08-10) published by EPRI, I summarised the following characteristics for the network traffic between Service Provider domain and Customer domain.

1. Nearly real-time

2. Small-size package

3. Large amount of clients

4. Asynchronous messaging

5. Connection-based messaging

6. Secure messaging

7. Broadcast and multicast when required

Overheard from Aussies

The following is excerpted from the Overheard column of today's mX, a free afternoon daily newspaper available to commuters in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. The Overheard column is for what people "eavesdropped in on something funny, weird or just plain dumb."

Guy 1: "Hye man, did you know the Winter Olympics are on the next year?"
Guy 2: "Oh really, where they holding them at?"
Guy 1: "I don't know, maybe somewhere where there is snow... maybe Mt Everest."
- Andrew

Girl: "Aren't Japan and China the same thing?"
Boy: "No, Japan is a little island by itself and China is in Aisa."
Girl: "Oh, so China is in Asia and Japan is inside of China?"
- Geography lesson