Creating Intelligent Networks - Energy Efficiency in Action
Organized by GreenTouch™ Consortium & Sponsored by the City of Nantes
Monday, 23 September, 2013, 8:30 - 16:30
Nantes Events Center
5, rue de Valmy, BP 24102
44041 Nantes cedex 1, France
GreenTouch Consortium: Overview and Green Meter Research Study
Presenter: Dr. Thierry E. Klein
Head of Green Research at Bell Labs / Alcatel-Lucent
Chair of Technical Committee GreenTouch
Greening Clouds and High Performance Computing: Challenges and Initiatives
Presenter: Jean-Patrick Gelas with Olivier Glück, Laurent Lefèvre, Mehdi Diouri, François Rossigneux, Ghislain Landry Tsafack Chetsa
Towards a Better Energy Efficiency: Perspective of Evolution for the Optical Network
Presenter: Dominique Chiaroni with Thierry Klein, Catherine Lepers
This event featured a discussion on how telecommunication networks and the Internet are being re-designed to be energy efficient, how information and communication technologies (ICT) enable smarter and sustainable growth and how these developments will help the European Union reach its 2020 energy efficiency targets.
Traffic in communication networks is predicted to grow exponentially in the next decade, driven primarily by the dramatic rise in mobile video, new applications and services for consumers and businesses. Smarter and more sustainable communities are also increasingly relying on networks and information technologies to build and to enable energy efficiencies in adjacent industries.
Creating intelligent and energy efficient networks is a key driver for economic growth; yet this opportunity comes with significant challenges. Increased traffic is placing huge burdens on all networks, service providers and operators. There is only one way forward: we must make our networks more energy-efficient, enabling them to support this traffic growth in a sustainable and economically viable way. A number of global initiatives are underway to address these challenges. Among them, the GreenTouch Consortium, founded in 2010, was formed with the explicit mission to develop radical technology breakthroughs that will enable us to redesign networks to be dramatically more energy-efficient.
This event examined the necessity of developing greener networks and highlighted the underlying challenges and opportunities for creating the intelligent networks with perspectives from the entire ecosystem. A series of presentations and interactive panel discussions provided the opportunity to hear and engage industry thought-leaders as they articulated their vision for the design, development, deployment and management of networks, as well as their operation and specific applications and use cases. Conversations went beyond the near-future to project the long-term opportunities for technological breakthroughs. The GreenTouch Consortium also shared its current accomplishments, laying out its roadmap for achieving its goal of increasing network efficiency by a factor of 1,000 and discuss how these developments impact the EU 2020 targets.
PROGRAM:
Welcome Coffee/Tea & Registration (8:30 - 9:00)
Welcome Remarks (9:00 - 9:30)
- Nantes Metropole
- Dr. Thierry Klein, Chairman of Technical Committee, GreenTouch™ Consortium; Head of Green Research, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Workshop Presentation Topics
- Achieving Sustainable Networks - Network Equipment Vendor's Perspective
- Achieving Sustainable Networks - Telecom Service Operator's Perspective
- Achieving Sustainable Networks - Research Challenges from an Academic Perspective
- Energy Efficiency in Data Centers and Cloud Computing
- Enabling Capabilities of ICT in Other Industries
- Intelligent Networks - The Overview of GreenTouch & GreenTouch Green Meter
Presentation Session I (9:30 - 11:30)
- Keynote Presentation: TBA
- Speakers
- Swisscom
- Joe Butler, Intel Labs Europe
- Dr. Muhammad Ali Imran, Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey: "Energy Efficiency of Cellular Systems and Use of ICT for Reshaping End-User Behaviour for Energy Efficient Operation"
- Dr. Thierry Klein, Chairman of the Technical Committee, GreenTouch™ Consortium; Head of Green Research, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent: "GreenTouch Consortium: Overview and Green Meter Research Study"
Atelier I&R Presentations (11:30 - 12:30)
- Technical Introduction by Prof. Hanggang Zhang and Prof. Emmanuel Boutillon
- Panel Discussion
- Moderator: Bernard Jouga, Supélec
- Panelists:
- Honggang Zhang, Supélec, CominLabs, Zheijang University
- Emmanuel Boutillon, Université de Bretagne Sud
- Frederic Lucarz, Telecom Bretagne
- Didier Nicot, Images & Réseaux
- Presentation by Didier Nicot, Images & Réseaux: "Overview of the Images & Réseaux's Projects on the Theme of Energy Efficiency"
Lunch & Networking (12:30 - 14:00)
Presentation Session II (14:00 - 16:00)
- Speakers
- Dr. Azeddine Gati, Orange Labs Research: "Green Evolution - an Operator's Point of View"
- Dr. Jean-Patrick Gelas, INRIA, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon: "Greening Clouds and High Performance Computing: Challenges and Initiatives"
- Dr. Dominique Chiaroni, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent: "Towards a Better Energy Efficiency: Perspective of Evolution for the Optical Network"
- Panel Discussion
- Moderator: Dr. Thierry Klein, Chairman of the Technical Committee, GreenTouch™ Consortium; Head of Green Research, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Closing Remarks (16:00 - 16:30)
- Dr. Thierry Klein, Chairman of the Technical Committee, GreenTouch™ Consortium; Head of Green Research, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
- Nantes Metropole
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