Industry group to apply green touch to telecom

Technology News (Jan 11 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Networking

1. A new industry group is hoping that the same amount of energy now used to power the Internet and other global networks for one day will eventually power them for three years. Unveiled by its organizer Bell Labs on Monday, the global consortium, dubbed Green Touch, has set a challenging agenda for itself--to plan and demonstrate the necessary technologies to make today's networks 1,000 times more energy efficient than they are today. The group's deadline is 2015, giving it just five years in which to determine and show how to dramatically slash the carbon emissions from all global networks. The group says its agenda is fueled by two issues: 1) the world's networks are eating up more energy at a faster pace as we increasingly demand more from them; and 2) research has shown that today's networks use more energy than they need to. If ... (Read Full Article)

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