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CONTACT(S) Art Reilly (arreilly_at_cisco.com)
ATIS Green InitiativePromoting Efficiency and
Innovation for Environmental Sustainability
Art Reilly, Cisco
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) GSC-15
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Current Activities ATIS Green Initiative

• Through the development of standards and industry
  direction, ATIS and its membership aim to
• Grasp the tremendous opportunity to demonstrate
  environmental leadership and awareness.
• Advance the ICT industrys ability to develop
  solutions to deliver energy-efficient substitutes
  for manual, mechanical, or physical processes.
• Promote global awareness/acceptance of ATIS
  Sustainability in Telecom Energy and Protection
  Committee (STEP) Standards
• In January 2010, the ATIS Exploratory Group on
  Green (EGG) released its final reports
• ATIS Report on ICT Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• ATIS Report on Wireless Energy Efficiency

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Current Activities ATIS Green Initiative

• The ATIS Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council
  provides a venue for service-provider, CIO-level
  representatives to proactively identify and
  resolve challenging IT issues of common interest.
• Focusing on environmental sustainability of data
  centers is a priority initiative for 2010.
• Plans include identifying best practices to
  improve power management and energy efficiency in
  data centers.
• ATIS' focus on sustainability going forward will
  center on work in the STEP Telecommunications
  Energy Efficiency (TEE) Subcommittee.

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Current Activities ATIS Green Initiative

• Standards Activities
• ATIS Sustainability in Telecom Energy and
  Protection (STEP) subcommittees and working
  groups producing related standards are
• The Telecommunications Energy Efficiency
  Subcommittee (STEP-TEE) develops standards and
  technical reports which define energy efficiency
  metrics, measurement techniques and new
  technologies, as well as operational practices
  for telecommunications components, systems and
  facilities.
• The Network Physical Protection Subcommittee
  Pb-free Working Group (STEP-NPP PWG) proposes,
  develops, and recommends Standards and Technical
  Reports relating to the use of lead or the
  restriction of lead in solder used in the
  manufacturing of telecommunications network
  equipment.

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Current Activities ATIS Green Initiative

• Current and Upcoming work Items in STEP-TEE
• Released 6 specifications outlining measurement
  methods for calculating telecommunication
  equipment energy ratio (TEER).
• Currently working on Draft Proposed American
  National Standard Energy Efficiency for
  Telecommunication Equipment Methodology for
  Measurement and Reporting of Wireless Base
  Station.
• Active correspondence is occurring with ETSI
  Environmental Engineering (EE), the Broadband
  Forum, and ITU-T SG5 on related work matters.
• Next steps will include work on Energy Efficiency
  for Power Plant Inverters, Converters, and UPSs,
  Wireless Core xGSN, Wireline Access Broadband
  Equipment (Includes Microwave Backhaul), General
  CPE, Set top boxes, Gateways, Home Router, Ext.
  AC/DC PSU, Storage Devices, IPTV (Components/IPTV
  Forum), Multi-vendor Modular Products, NCTE,
  iNID, and Firewalls.

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Challenges

• Climate change is a global problem that would
  benefit from a global solution.
• U.S. legislation and mandates are being
  considered by policy makers Be Prepared.
• Increased awareness of the important role that
  ICT can play in realizing efficiency gains is
  critical.
• Government mandates or self-imposed industry
  metrics that would restrict the use of ICTs by
  indiscriminately limiting total ICT power
  consumption would be counterproductive.
• Individual State and Local level requirements and
  incentives can lead to a fragmented regulatory
  framework.
• Standards and best practices across the global
  landscape should be harmonized to meet the needs
  of the ICT industrys multinational reach.

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Next Steps/Actions

• Advance environmental sustainability on behalf of
  our member companies including
• Educating industry associations and other
  appropriate stakeholders of ATIS Green
  Standardization activities and
• Launching efforts to engage other standards
  developers to achieve globally harmonized
  solutions.
• Assess issues associated with advancing wireless
  network energy efficiency and lifecycle
  assessment.
• Work in unison with other standards organizations
  to achieve harmonized industry standards and
  specifications.
• Continue to deliver critical industry standards
  i.e., TEER specifications.

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Proposed Resolution

• Proposed to modify existing Resolution (GSC-14/8)
  to identify COP15 in past tense and COP16 as a
  future event.

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Supplementary Slides
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ATIS Environmental Sustainability Report

• Issued in March 2009, the ATIS Report on
  Environmental Sustainability includes
• the ICT sectors definition of sustainability
• a review of the ICT sectors current green
  initiatives
• an examination of energy efficiency practices and
  alternate energy sources
• an outline of the business drivers behind the ICT
  sectors sustainability actions
• a demonstration of the ICT industry as an enabler
  of applications and services that improve energy
  efficiency in other sectors and
• a number of actions to consider in establishing
  or expanding a sustainability program.

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ATIS Report Reviewing ICT Life Cycle Assessments
(LCA), January 2010

• Environmental stewardship in the Information and
  Communication Technologies (ICT) industry will
  mean all levels of manufacturing, supply, network
  design and operations are done in the most
  eco-efficient way possible. Manufacturers will be
  called upon to design new products with fewer
  toxics, and to make them more durable, reusable,
  and recyclable, and with recycled materials.
  Operators will be called upon to streamline their
  networks, use environmentally preferred
  purchasing criteria and clean sources of energy.
  Network equipment manufacturers may need to
  arrange for takeback and recycling of equipment.
• Environmental stewardship depends on good data to
  make appropriate strategy and implementation
  decisions. Life cycle assessment is the workhorse
  for generating environmental stewardship data.
  This report provides a comprehensive review of
  approaches to life cycle assessment,
  methodologies, tools, environmental impact
  assessment databases, existing standards, and
  developing initiatives that can support the ICT
  industry in making life cycle assessment a key
  enabler in driving and monitoring sustainable
  business performance in a company.

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ATIS Report on Wireless Energy Efficiency,
January 2010

• In recognizing the expanse of the embedded
  infrastructure to support existing and future
  wireless users, this report outlines a number of
  energy efficient practices and methods for
  consideration by companies seeking to achieve
  greater efficiencies within their wireless
  networks. Methods outlined range from simple
  energy conservation measures to use of more
  complex automated system-wide monitoring and
  power control functions including aggressive
  RF/power management techniques. The increased use
  of renewable energy sources including wind and
  solar energy to power cell-sites is also covered,
  as well as network engineering practices that
  should be evaluated. For instance, the
  feasibility of implementing measures such as
  requiring the use of a telecommunication
  equipment energy rating (TEER) system for
  individual pieces of ICT equipment should be
  considered, as well as its physical placement in
  the cell-site to minimize power loss and maximize
  cooling potential.
• ATIS' focus on sustainability going forward will
  center on work in STEP-TEE.

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ATIS Energy Efficiency Standards

• ATIS STEP-Telecommunications Energy Efficiency
  (STEP-TEE) subcommittee was established to
  produce a document or suite of documents for use
  by Service Providers to assess the true energy
  needs of 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
• Current work has focused on a uniform method for
  measuring telecommunication equipment energy
  consumption (power), as well as establishing
  efficiency metrics and reporting methods.
• Subsequent documents in the STEPs series of
  documents, planned for release over time, will
  cover other network and consumer equipment and
  devices including, but not limited to, core
  network routers and switches, outside plant
  equipment, gateways, set-top-boxes and other CE
  devices, and power systems.

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ATIS Energy Efficiency Standards

• The STEP-TEE has released the following TEER
  standards
• ATIS-0600015.2009, February 2009, Energy
  Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment
  Methodology for Measurement and Reporting
  General Requirements
• ATIS-0600015.01.2009, February 2009, Energy
  Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment
  Methodology for Measurement and Reporting --
  Server Requirements
• ATIS-0600015.02.2009, February 2009, Energy
  Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment
  Methodology for Measurement and Reporting
  Transport Requirements
• ATIS-0600015.03.2009, July 2009, Energy
  Efficiency for Telecommunications Equipment
  Methodology for Measurement and Reporting for
  Router and Ethernet Switch Products
• ATIS-0600015.04.2010, January 2010, Energy
  Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment
  Methodology for Measurement and Reporting DC
  Power Plant Rectifier Requirements
• ATIS-0600015.05, April 2010, Energy Efficiency
  for Telecommunication Equipment Methodology for
  Measurement and Reporting Facility Energy
  Efficiency

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ATIS Energy Efficiency Standards

• The ATIS STEP also has work underway on
• potential use of environmentally friendly
  materials in describing materials used for
  connectors
• airborne contamination (mixed flowing gas and
  hygroscopic dust) requirements for network
  equipment in the central office and outside plant
  environments and
• heat dissipation and power consumption
  requirements for network equipment in central
  office and outside plant environments including
  methods to reduce power consumption for DSL
  modems at both ends of the line.

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ATIS Hazardous Waste Standards

• With respect to hazardous waste reduction, the
  ATIS STEP-NPP Pb-Free Working Group released the
  following documents.
• Pb-Free Acceptance Criteria for Modules
  (ATIS-0600019.2009) was completed in January
  2009, providing the test requirements for PB-free
  Subassembly Modules. This document exclusively
  focus on those Restrictions of Hazardous
  Substances (RoHS) items specific to the
  introduction of Pb-free components and does not
  address requirements for device specific
  qualifications.
• Test Requirements for Pb-Free Circuit Packs
  (ATIS-0600020.2010) was completed in January
  2010, providing the acceptance and testing
  Requirements for Pb-free circuit packs. This
  document exclusively focuses on those issues
  specific to Pb-free assembly and the introduction
  of Pb-free components into circuit packs, and
  does not address requirements for product
  specific qualification.