ALCATEL-LUCENT
Energy Efficient Networks to Enable
Sustainable Information-Based Societies
Jean-Luc Beylat, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, President
September 2011
OUR COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY
Why it matters?
Ben Verwaayen | “The world is having a lot of challenges at this moment.
One of them, one of the most important one, is to transform our economies
from physical economies to digital economies, to be inclusive for the rural
world and to tackle climate change.
As an industry we can contribute. As a society we need to take advantage”
Digital economies
Rural inclusion
Climate change
OUR COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY
Going Green: next revolution of 21st century?
ECONOMIC
DRIVER
“How do we get Green out of the talking shop into
reality? Remember the Internet in the 80's? When so
many went into their garages and invented the world we
are now used to? Well, Green can be the same motor
for innovation. Again the sound of excitement out of the
garages will inspire a new wave of economic growth.”
CEO Alcatel-Lucent
At the World Economic Forum
ALCATEL-LUCENT’S ECO-SUSTAINABLE
APPROACH: Fundamental elements
Transforming
communications
for a sustainable world
Developing Eco-Sustainable Networks
Enabling a Low Carbon Economy
Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
Leveraging Bell Labs eco-innovation
Playing a pro-active role with key stakeholders
DEVELOPING ECO-SUSTAINABLE NETWORKS
Holistic lifecycle approach delivers eco-sustainable networks
Take-Back /
Recycling /
Reuse
Design for
Environment
Product
Stewardship
Network
Optimization
Alternative
Energies
Smart
Manufacturing
Energy
Efficient
Operation
Eco
Packaging
Functional use represents 80%-90% of eco impact
DRIVERS and GREEN TRANSFORMATION
Telepresence
Industry
New value-add Services
Mobile broadband everyone,
everywhere
Increase revenue
Reduce Cost
Climate change issues
Reduce energy consumption
Compliance
Smart Grids
Smart Smart Buildings
Communities
Smart
Transportation
Reinvent scalable “green networks”
E-Health
WHERE WE ARE
Doing nothing is not an option
Global Users
Information
Vidéo
Wireless
HD … 3D …
2010
Reducing
Our
Carbon
Footprint
2020
Sustainable Networking
By 2015, deliver architectures, specifications, roadmaps,
and demonstrate key technologies needed to increase
network energy efficiency by a
1000-fold over current levels
• Global consortium with experts from across industry and
world’s top institutions collaborating in matrix of openinnovation, establishing roadmaps, listing challenges and
focusing on highest opportunity
• Pre-competitive research that emphasizes clean slate
architectures and out-of-the-box thinking
• Support and Funding from members and Governments
• Ambitious goal in finite period of time
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Focusing on Biggest Wins
GreenTouch™ has established technical working groups to focus on
the activities with the highest estimated potential of improving energy
efficiency in communications networks
Technical Working Groups
Input to
Working
Groups
comes from
Services,
Applications
& Trends
Committee
• Wireless (1000X)
• Wireline Access (100X)
• Core Routing & Switching
(100X)
• Core Optical Networking and
Transmission (10X)
Across the
Working
Groups there
are More
than
25
Collaborative
Projects
Underway
Infrastructure & Ideas in place to maximize success
Research Topics
Low power technologies (electronics, photonics and interconnects)
Integrated processing with silicon photonic interconnects
Scalable architectures for energy follows load
Analog vs. digital computation
Energy efficient thermal management
Components
and Hardware
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Network
Architecture
 Energy efficient network topologies with minimum number of hops
 Energy efficient routing
 Joint IP-optical network design
Management
and Control
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Content
Distribution
 Scalable content centric networking with tighter integration of content distribution and
transport
 Service optimized networks
 Energy efficient content (re)-placement mechanisms
Dynamic resource allocation and sleep modes
Energy efficient bandwidth allocation (e.g. reduce over-provisioning and efficient protection)
Eliminate redundant and unnecessary functions; minimum per-packet processing
Energy efficient protocols
MEMBERS – GROWING LIST
• AT&T
• Athens Information
Technology (AIT) Center for
Research & Education
• Bell Labs
• Broadcom
• Carnegie Mellon University
• CEA-LETI Applied Research
Institute for Microelectronics
• China Mobile
• Chunghwa Telecom
• Columbia University
• Draka Communications
• Dublin City University
• Electronics and
Telecommunication Research
Institute (ETRI)
• Energy Sciences Network/
Lawrence Berkeley Labs
• Fondazione Politecnico di
Milano
• France Telecom Orange
• Fraunhofer-Geselleschaft
• Freescale Semiconductor
• The French National Institute
for Research in Computer
Science and Control (INRIA)
• Fujitsu
• Huawei
• IBBT
• IMEC
• Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology
• Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven (K.U. Leuven)
• King Abdulaziz City for
Science and Technology
• KT Corporation
• National ICT Australia
• NTT
• Politecnico di Torino
• Portugal Telecom Inovação,
S.A.
• Samsung Advanced Institute
of Technologiy
• Seoul National University
• Swisscom
• TNO
• Tsinghua University
• TTI
• TU Dresden
• Universitat Paderborn
• University College London
• University of Cambridge
• University of Delaware
• University of Leeds
• University of Manchester
• University of Maryland
• University of Melbourne’s
Institute for a BroadbandEnabled Society (IBES)
• University of New South
Wales
• University of Toronto
• Waterford Institute of
Technology
Green Radio Network Architecture Approaches
Green Air Interface
• Large Scale Antenna Systems
• Very High Bandwidth
Network Architecture & Mgmt
• Dynamic Management for Energy
Efficiency
• Small Cells, Relays and Repeaters
• New BS Architecture – Cloud Computing
for Signal Processing
Base Station Hardware
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Ultra Low-Power Base-Station on a Chip
Photonic Enablers for RF Systems
High Efficiency RF-Power Amplifiers
Renewable Energy Powering
New Architectures such as lightRadio™
RN
eNB
RRH
UE
UE
RRH
RRH
Rethink entire wireless access for energy efficiency
MAJOR INITIATIVES: lightRadio™
Alcatel-Lucent maps the future of mobile technology
• Improves the environment: reduces
energy consumption of mobile networks by
up to 50%
• Addresses global digital divide: easy
creation of broadband coverage virtually
anywhere there is power (electricity, sun,
wind)
• Offers major savings for operators:
potential reduction of total cost of ownership
(TCO) of mobile networks up to 50%
“lightRadio is a smart solution to a tough set of
problems: high energy costs, the explosion of
video on mobile, and connecting the
unconnected.”
Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent
“lightRadio”™ is a revolutionary, multi-technology product
family that completely changes the face of the radio access
network (RAN)
Green: Providing “Value” at “Minimal Energy”
• “Information” is a critical component of value
• ICT networks: ultra energy-efficient in producing and transporting information
• Green is the product of everything we do in the Company
Value
bits
Service
Value
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Energy
Energy
bits
Service
Research
Overall Goal
Less energy per bit
• BL Green Research
•
More service per bit
• Immersion, …
• CCN, CDN, …
More value
per service
•
• Smart grid, ...
ENABLING A LOW CARBON ECONOMY
Innovative communications applications
Enabling
a low carbon economy
Energy (power utilities): smart
grid & smart metering
Transportation and logistics:
intelligent transport systems
Healthcare: remote patient care
and monitoring
Smart communities: state and
local authorities, public safety
MAJOR INITIATIVES: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
Developing eco-sustainable networks
Alcatel-Lucent Alternative Energy Program |
1st truly industrial solution
More than 400 alternative energy-powered wireless base
stations have been deployed to date
MAJOR INITIATIVES: SMART GRID
For a more efficient management from the generation to the consumption
Electricity generation and distribution: ¼ of total worldwide GHG emissions
Alcatel-Lucent enables utilities :
• to monitor real-time usage,
• to inform and influence consumers to be more
energy aware
THE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK
AT THE CORNERSTONE
OF MAKING THE GRID SMARTER
• to consume energy more efficiently
Alcatel-Lucent is already successfully delivering Smart Grid solutions
Smart Grid | Enabling reduced environmental impact
through secure and reliable communications
ICT: AN OPPORTUNITY TO TACKLE CLIMATE
CHANGE
Gtons CO2
ICT today: about 2% of global emissions
Potential direct
telecom equipment
energy savings by 2020
1.4
0.8
0.5
2002
0.5
2007
Zero Growth Line
2020
Indirect application
examples
An Opportunity for
Tremendous Impact on
Remaining 98%
 Smart utilities
 Smart transport
 Smart buildings
 Smart industry
ICT can enable a 15%
reduction in global
emissions by 2020
Source: GeSI – SMART 2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age
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MAJOR INITIATIVES: CARBON FOOTPRINT
Our commitment
Commitment | Alcatel-Lucent committed to a
50% reduction of its carbon footprint by 2020
Learn more at: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/eco/reducing-co2/
Passionate & Dedicated Support of Leadership Team
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