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Some of the world's biggest telecoms companies have come together to form a new consortium tasked with overseeing a massive reduction in the amount of energy used by the industry each year.
Called Green Touch, the new group effort is being spearheaded by Bell Labs, with 14 other private operators, as well as several government agencies, already on board.
The group has laid out its plans to roll out a new generation of networking and telecommunications technology that allows for a marked reduction in emission levels within the next five years.
Notably, according to the head of research at Bell Labs, Gee Rittenhouse, the minimum acceptable level of energy reduction is a factor of 10,000 smaller than today's network uses, though the group has already updated its more immediate targets to achieving a reduction factor of just 1,000.
"We expect information and communication technology (ICT) usage to dramatically increase as other industries use networks to reduce their own carbon footprints," he said.
"This naturally leads to an exponential growth in ICT energy consumption which we, as an industry, have to jointly address."
Along with AT&T, China Mobile, Telefonica and Swisscom have signed up to Green Touch.
The New Jersey-based Bell Labs was previously the research arm of AT&T, before breaking away.
Last Updated: 12/01/2010 14:27
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