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Art Reilly (arreilly@cisco.com)
ATIS’ Green Initiative:
Promoting Efficiency and Innovation
for Environmental Sustainability
Art Reilly, Cisco
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
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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 industry’s 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), Multivendor 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 ICT’s 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 industry’s
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 (GSC14/8) 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 sector’s definition of “sustainability”;
• a review of the ICT sector’s current “green” initiatives;
• an examination of energy efficiency practices and alternate energy
sources;
• an outline of the business drivers behind the ICT sector’s
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
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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
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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
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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:
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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 STEP’s 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
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systems.
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 PbFree 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 Pbfree components into circuit packs, and does not address requirements for
product specific qualification.
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