Greening the ICT industry by a factor of 1,000 sounds incomprehensible to some but the GreenTouch Consortium contends it will be a reality. Join TIA NOW and the Chairman of GreenTouch, Thierry Van Landegem, to find out how he plans to lead the way in Green ICT.

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GreenTouch introduces a new technology that will dramatically reduce energy consumption in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, as well as other applications. The breakthrough Bit-Interleaved Passive Optical Network (Bi-PON) technology is the second major milestone reached by the consortium. When deployed, it will enable a power reduction of 30 times over current technologies while improving performance and reducing cost.

FTTH is expected to nearly double over the next five years, reaching 142 million subscribers worldwide by 2016, according to ABI Research. With Bi-PON instead of the current optical technology in use, consumers will see a sizeable reduction in their energy consumption, saving the environment and dramatically reducing their energy bills. Significantly, the impact will be the equivalent carbon of taking half a million cars from the roads! That's roughly all the cars in the city of San Francisco.

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Gee Rittenhouse (Chairman, GreenTouch;  COO, Software, Services and Solutions at Alcatel-Lucent) delivers a keynote address during the TIA 2012 VIP Dinner.

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That is the question that 13 year old Kripi Badonia asked Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen a few years ago. Ben answered that question and many others but it made a lasting impression. Now 3 years later -- they meet up again to discuss not only what Alcatel-Lucent is doing but also what Kripi has been working on to make the world a better place.

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Ben Verwaayen (CEO Alcatel-Lucent) answers 14 year old Indian student Kripi Badonia after she asked him the question "what have you done for the planet?" More on:
http://www2.alcatel-lucent.com/blogs/corporate/2009/11/what-have-you-done-for...

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GreenTouch Consortium aims to improve the energy efficiency of information & communications technology (ICT) networks by a factor of 1,000. Bell Labs researcher Peter Vetter and Michael Peeters, CTO Alcatel-Lucent Wireline discuss the second major GreenTouch milestone which includes a power reduction that is the CO² equivalent of taking some half a million cars off the road!

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 As the worlds of energy and communications converge, the resulting innovation will change the way everyone manages and consumes energy - personally, in households, businesses, government and industry. Pete Tseronis (CTO, Dept. of Energy) and Gee Rittenhouse (Chairman, GreenTouch; COO, Alcatel-Lucent’s Software, Services, and Solutions Group) join us in the studio.

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GreenTouch is a consortium of service providers, research institutions and NGO’s set out to improve the efficiency of communications networks by a factor of 1,000.  At a London press event, GreenTouch demonstrated a Large-Scale Antenna System that shows the potential for energy savings by increasing the number of antenna elements. Leila Makki reports.

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Following our Green ICT panel discussion last month, we look back at the key points raised and bring you this bite-size version of the programme. As the panelists from BT, Bell Labs and Juniper Research point out, it's all very well having the technology to be green, but consumer take up is key to rolling out true-green end-to-end solutions.

Participants:
Sam Samuel, Executive Director, Bell Labs
Donna Young, General Manager of Climate Change & Programme Development, BT
Windsor Holden, Principal Analyst, Juniper Research

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