ATIS Green Initiative

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ATIS Green Initiative
DOCUMENT GSC13-PLEN-39
FOR Presentation
SOURCE Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
AGENDA ITEM Plenary 6.9
CONTACT(S) Tim Jeffries, ATIS VP Technology and Business Development, tjeffries_at_atis.org
Submission DateJuly 1, 2008
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ATIS Green Initiative

• ATIS has been actively pursuing the topic of
  Green and its consideration by the
  communications, information and entertainment
  industry.
• To meet the needs of its members, ATIS will be
  taking a practical, market-driven and
  business-oriented approach to Green.
• ATIS initial areas of focus include
• sharing lessons learned and other information
  about Green initiatives and programs across ATIS
  member companies
• collectively working towards industry-wide
  operational policies, technical standards or
  performance benchmarks to consistently quantify
  conformity to, or levels of, being Green and
• applying consensus-driven industry-based
  parameters, criteria and guidelines, when
  possible, ahead of government-driven mandates or
  programs.

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The State of Green

• Equipment vendors and operators have been
  concerned with reducing energy consumption, heat
  generation, and the equipment footprint for
  years, in an effort to increase operational
  efficiencies and reduce cost.
• Industry is taking steps and/or have actions
  underway in many Green-related areas.
• Areas of importance network efficiencies, data
  centers, and applications/services.
• Areas of interest recycling, corporate ops,
  equipment supply-chains, and alternative
  (Green/renewable) energy.
• Green work within ATIS committees is currently
  concentrated in the Network Interface, Power, and
  Protection Committee (NIPP).
• Telecom Energy Efficiencies
• Restriction of the use of certain hazardous
  substances in electronic equipment (RoHS).

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Strategic Direction

• Provide a platform for discussion among
  stakeholders to share lessons learned, best
  practices and (existing or impending)
  requirements.
• Develop appropriate mechanisms and tools to
  assist industry in advancing or implementing
  Green programs/initiatives (e.g., roadmap).
• Develop (voluntary) industry-driven,
  market-oriented benchmarks, requirements/criteria
  and performance metrics to measure Green
  efficiencies and improvement.
• Raise awareness of Green via educational seminars
  and conferences.

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Challenges

• The term Green is too freely used without being
  clearly defined leading to misconceptions, misuse
  and/or greenwashing.
• Most, if not all, companies are regularly
  addressing external inquiries on their internal
  Green programs/initiatives such as stakeholder
  expectations.
• The industry is currently in a state of having to
  react to parameters, criteria and guidelines
  based on or driven by government mandates.
• There are no industry-wide operational policies,
  technical standards or performance matrices to
  consistently quantify conformity to, or levels
  of, being Green.

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Next Steps/Actions

• Define the meaning of Green and the Greening
  process
• Consider Green initiatives in discrete areas such
  as product development, corporate operations and
  service offerings, and their usefulness in
  attaining broader corporate goals such as greater
  network efficiencies, utilization of alternative
  energy sources, and compliance to
  regulatory/policy mandates.
• Initiate consideration of Green areas where
  greater efficiencies can be driven within the
  industry, as well as industrys role in driving
  Green efficiencies into other industry sectors
  such as transportation, education, financial,
  health, etc.
• Identify existing and/or pending
  government-driven criteria and requirements
  affecting industry, industry-driven technical
  standards activities and operations practices,
  and existing Green programs/initiatives to
  identify areas where industry can proactively
  engage in dialogue to advance industry
  initiatives.

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Supplemental Slides
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ATIS Work on Green

• Reducing power consumption of telecom equipment
  by increased energy efficiency
• A new subcommittee (NIPP-TEE) was established in
  NIPP to produce a document or suite of documents
  that may be used by Service Providers to assess
  the true energy needs of telecom equipment at
  time of purchase such as
• Energy use as a function of traffic
• Energy use as a function of environmental
  conditions
• Cooling Requirements
• Suitability of a product for use with renewable
  energy sources
• Improvements in environmental footprint through
  Life Cycle Assessments
• Energy Using Products horizontal implementing
  measures
• Standby and off-mode definitions
• Standby and off-mode losses
• Reducing power consumption for DSL modems
• Related work in the NIPP is investigating methods
  to reduce power consumption for DSL modems at
  both the network and customer ends of the line.
• Collaboration with the DSL Forum and ITU-T Q4/15
  is expected.

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ATIS Work on Green

• Restricting the use of certain hazardous
  materials in telecom equipment
• The ATIS NIPP launched a working group in 2006
  (NIPP-NPP Pb-Free Working Group) to address
  hazardous waste reduction.
• RoHS-Compliant Standard for Structural Metals,
  Bus Bars and Fasteners (ATIS-PP-0600009.2007) was
  completed in 2007, providing the physical
  technical requirements for telecommunications
  equipment systems and assemblies intended for
  installation in network equipment buildings and
  electronic equipment enclosures as well as the
  design and construction of mechanical hardware,
  cable assemblies and printed wiring boards.
• Additional work on reducing the use of lead-free
  solder in telecommunications equipment has been
  launched. Three documents are currently planned
  to address the following testing areas
• Pb-Free Acceptance Criteria for Modules
• Pb-Free Acceptance Criteria for Pb-Free
  Assemblies
• Accelerated Pb-Free Robustness Check