Thierry Van Landegem Chairman, GreenTouch, Vice President, Global Operations, Bell Labs
Remember I felt 2013 was like a ‘grand cru’ year for GreenTouch?
5 March, 2014
Apparently more people had this feeling. Last week in Barcelona, Telecoms.com presented GreenTouch the award in the Green Technology category. An honor, if you know that Telecom.com is the leading provider of news and analysis by Informa, keeping its users up to date on the latest technological advancements and market trends, addressing key business and technology issues facing our industry.High up on mount Montjuic, with a panoramic view of Barcelona, Telecoms.com handed out the award to our member Rico Schwendener from Swisscom, who represented our consortium.
This tells me two things. For one, Telecoms.com recognizes green technology in ICT and energy efficiency in particular is an important industry challenge. Second, it recognizes the ground breaking work our consortium has done in its few years of existence. I don’t know about you, but it really feels great to be recognized in the telecom world next to big telecom names winning awards in other categories – have a look at http://www.telecoms.com/spot/awards/.
Through our awarded Green Meter study, we are literally trailblazing a path towards significant reductions in network energy consumption while at the same time supporting exponential growth in traffic. Our study found that it is possible to reduce the net energy consumption in communication networks by up to 90% by 2020 through dramatic improvements in energy efficiency in access and core networks while supporting exponential traffic growth. What I am sure caught the eye of the jury, is that this is a first-of-its-kind study due to its breadth and depth of technologies being included, from the mobile networks, the fixed access networks and the core networks, not focusing on a single technology but rather on the end-to-end network perspective including a full range of technologies.
Picking up my analogy of a great wine year, a wine maker would say that last year’s technology harvest will even make a better wine this year. We have built a comprehensive portfolio and technical roadmap with provable solutions to reduce the energy consumption in telecommunications and we are actively engaged in understanding the impact of these innovative technologies from a standardization perspective and driving towards productization and deployment of the research assets being developed. We are continuing on our industry thought leader path.
Let’s celebrate and, cheers!
Thierry