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Partner Atemex and OSI to Deliver State-of-the-Art SCADA System for Guadalajara, the Second Largest City in Mexico

Mexican partner, Automatización y Tecnología Mexicana SA de CV (Atemex) and Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) have been awarded a contract by División de Distribución Jalisco of Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) to be the supplier of its new, next-generation SCADA system in their facilities in Guadalajara.

División de Distribución Jalisco delivers energy services to the city of Guadalajara and a surrounding, thriving metropolitan area with a population in excess of 4 million people. Located in the West-Central part of Mexico in the state bearing the same name, División de Distribución Jalisco is an independent division of Comisión Federal de Electricidad, the second largest state-owned company in Mexico and largest electric utility company in the country. Deploying OSI technology, Jalisco intends to implement a modern system for operations to better serve the metropolitan areas more than 1.2 million customers as well as improve the support, reliability and efficiency of its network.

To complete this project, OSI will provide support for Atemex to ensure a swift and successful implementation of División de Distribución Jaliscos next-generation automation system. The proposed system for Guadalajara is based on OSI's monarch™ (Multi-platform Open Network ARCHitecture) technology on the Linux platform and includes Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Web-based Graphical User Interface, Historical Information and Archiving System, Trending and Calculation subsystem, Open Database Connectivity, as well as DNP and ICCP communications.

"Atemex is looking forward to beginning the implementation of the new SCADA system for División de Distribución Jalisco, one of the most prominent divisions of CFE. The new system will replace two outdated systems from the prior suppliers and allow much more fluid, robust and efficient operations for the division. We are proud to have been awarded this project and are ecstatic to be able to provide the system of the future to the División de Distribución Jalisco team. We understand that the new system will enable a substantial improvement of the electrical services for the people in Guadalajara for many years, which is extremely important for all the parties involved in this project," said Lus Tern, President of Atemex.

"OSI is proud to continue our expansion in Mexico with a customer of the caliber of División de Distribución Jalisco. We welcome them to our proud family of monarch users and look forward to working closely with our partner, Atemex, and División de Distribución Jalisco to help achieve and satisfy their reliability, efficiency and growth efforts for many years to come," added Bahman Hoveida, President and CEO of OSI.

CFE (www.cfe.gob.mx) is a Mexican public corporation and government agency that was founded in 1937. CFE's mission is to provide generation, transmission, distribution and commercialization of electric energy for 26.4 million customers of Mexico's population of almost 80 million people, making it the largest electric utility in Mexico, and one the largest in North America. División de Distribución Jalisco is one of the largest of several CFE divisions throughout Mexico and provides electrical energy to over 2,400,000 customers.

Atemex is a Mexican automation company with a solid technical background and outstanding reputation. Atemex designs and manufactures RTUs, SCADA communication accessories and data concentrators for electrical utilities in the Mexican market. OSI and Atemex have worked together since September 2007 to bring state-of-the-art OSI technology to control centers in Mxico. Atemex is headquartered in Chihuahua, Mexico.

OSI (www.osii.com) provides open, state-of-the-art, and high-performance automation solutions to electric utilities worldwide. These solutions include Energy Management Systems (EMS), Distribution Management Systems (DMS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, and Generation Management Systems (GMS), as well as individual software products and e-business solutions for electric utility operations. OSI is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

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