Thierry Van Landegem
Chairman, GreenTouch
Vice President, Global Operations, Bell Labs
All of our hard work is paying off
April 5, 2013
We just finished our GreenTouch board meeting, a perfect time to share some updates with members. These are exciting times: our Chair of the Technical Committee Thierry Klein briefed the board on the progress we have made on our journey towards this bold goal of improving the energy efficiency of communications networks. He used the equivalent of a thermometer, called the green meter, to indicate the progress towards our goal. All board members were truly impressed with the phenomenal results we are able to present after two and a half years of hard work. What is even more exciting is that these results are pretty conservative; they don’t include all the technologies we are working on. That means there are even more updates to come.
The progress-to-date is so remarkable that we don’t want to keep this news internally within GreenTouch, we want to tell the whole world! Adding to the excitement, Kay Seo, our chair of the marketing committee, outlined her plans for a communication blitz towards press and general media. We will be writing history; we will show the world that working on this hard problem of the energy efficiency of communications networks by setting a bold challenge and bringing together all relevant stakeholders, works! Watch-out for our announcement in early May!
Finally, I am really thrilled that we are busy preparing for our face to face meeting in Shanghai, China 13-16 May. During the meeting, I am sure there will be a lot of conversation around our announcement of the progress report. Even more important though, we will continue the work on the projects that will further feed into the next iterations of the progress report. I urge you to register for this meeting if you haven’t done so. See you all very soon.
Thierry