GREEN
TELECOMMUNICATION
BY
JATIN ARORA
MBA INFRA
1605 MPB
Green IT - What is it?
Green IT refers to the idea that IT
organizations can and should implement
practices that are environmentally friendly
Green IT - What is it?
Growing telecommunications infrastructure
requires increasing amount of electricity to power
it. Part of the electricity comes from the grid and
remaining through burning of fossil fuel like
diesel. Both of these sources contribute to
emission of green house gases (GHG) with the
attendant negative environmental effects.
Aspects Of Green IT
Reduction of the GHG produced or caused to be produced
by the telecom sector is referred to as greening of
telecom. Green telecom has many facets. It can be
classified broadly in terms of greening of telecom
networks, green telecom equipment manufacture,
environment friendly design of telecom buildings and safe
telecom waste disposal.
Aspects Of Green IT
Green Telecom Networks
In telecom networks greening would refer to minimizing
consumption of energy through use of energy efficient
technology, using renewable energy sources and eco-
friendly consumables.
Aspects Of Green IT
Green Manufacturing
The greening process would involve using eco-friendly
components, energy efficient manufacturing equipment,
electronic and mechanical waste recycling and disposal,
reduction in use of hazardous substances like
chromium,lead and mercury and reduction of harmful
radio emission.
Aspects Of Green IT
Design of green central office buildings
Optimization of energy
Optimization of power consumption and
Optimization of thermal emission
Minimization of green house gas emission
Aspects Of Green IT
Waste disposal
Disposal of mobile phones, network equipment, etc., in an
environment-friendly manner so that any toxic material
used during production does not get channelized into the
atmosphere or underground water.
Motivation For Green Telecom
Need to reduce the cost of operations of the telecom network by
reducing energy cost.
Need to expand network into rural areas where power availability is poor.
Renewable energy technology becoming available at increasingly reducing
cost.
Confluence of socio-political trends towards environmental responsibility,
pressure groups against global warming.
Creating sustainable businesses has become important where the
objective is not only to create products and services through ethical
means but also minimize environmental impact and improve
communities.
International treaties like Kyoto Protocol
What is causing this attention towards
Green IT?
Rising energy costs over the past ve years Increased publicity
regarding global warming and energy citizenship
Increased legislation surrounding energy efficiency, toxic
materials, and greenhouse gases (GHG) in the US, European Union
and China
Real Reported Issues
Servers and desktop PCs remain fully powered on nights
and weekends Data Centre
Carbon dioxide emissions generated by cooling
Amount of electricity needed to power and cool the data
center makes it one of the costliest aspects of an IT
department
Real Reported Issues
Facilities issues
Inefficient and expensive cooling methods.
Hardware issues
Energy-intense high-density servers.
Real Reported Issues
Lack of awareness and attention can result in excess energy
consumption and harmful disposal practices for IT equipment
Use of laptops, LCD monitors can significantly reduce electricity
consumption and costs.
Simple asset usage practices, such as turning off PCs at nights and
on weekends and using power saving settings during the day, can
reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions.
Proper asset disposal practices can eliminate toxic waste from
entering landfill systems
Moving Towards Green Telecom
The Indian telecom sector has also taken some steps towards
reducing carbon footprints and are working on a number of
initiatives to develop energy efficient networks and energy efficient
handsets. Some efforts that have been reported are:
Launch of green shelter concept to save energy consumption by
Airtel.
Idea Cellular currently has many sites running on biodiesel in
India. The biodiesel for these base stations comes from used
cooking oils from restaurants.
Moving Towards Green Telecom
Bharti Infratel has set a target of deploying 2000 renewable energy
sites by the financial year 2010-11. This initiative is expected to
result in estimated savings of US$16.67 million per year. The
project is also expected to result in an estimated reduction of
58,170 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
BSNL has taken up pilot projects for 10KW solar plants at 14 sites
and Wind power project at 6 USO funded sites in Rajasthan,
Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Associated practices
Data Centre
Eliminate energy leaks.
Use innovative and more efficient cooling methods.
Replace high-density servers with virtual servers.
Use alternative storage tactics.
Reconfigure data center floor layouts.
Explore alternative energy sources.
Associated practices
End-User Computing
Alter purchasing practices for IT assets
Encourage adoption of energy-saving settings on computers
Practice proper disposal and recycling practices of IT assets
Green IT - Associated Benets
Reduced carbon and other GHG emissions.
Increased cooling efficiency in the data center.
Reduced energy costs.
Cost savings.
Improved nancial performance.
Positive publicity.
Use of Renewable Energy Technologies
Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources such
as water, sunlight, wind, rain, tides, fuel cells and biomass sources
as energy crops.
Renewable energy sources are energy sources that are continually
and naturally replenished in a short period of time.
Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) are those that utilize
energy sources in ways that do not deplete the Earths natural
resources and are as environmentally benign as possible.
Incentives For Green Telecom
Energy requirement for equipment or a part of the network can be
worked out as a function of traffic or based on cooling
requirements, ability to function in all weather conditions or on
sleep mode functionality. The equipment that outperforms the
threshold set may be given incentive.
Equipment that uses renewable energy sources may be given
subsidy.
Equipment that is spectrum efficient and is able to provide more
data rate with minimum bandwidth and equipment which is able
to provide radiations of more signal strength with less power
consumption can be given incentive.
Incentives For Green Telecom
The operators who utilize non-hazardous materials in telecom as
per Kyoto Protocol be given incentives.
The telecom industry having adequate arrangement for the
hazardous waste reduction should be considered for incentives.
There could be incentive plans for operators who implement
equipment recycling program.
There could be non-financial incentives to operators/tower
companies in the form of technical assistance provided by experts
of bodies like GSMA, specifically for feasibility studies.
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that
provides shared computer processing resources and data to
computers and other devices on demand.
Cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs
over the Internet instead of your computer's hard drive.
Cloud Service Models
Software as a Service
The software is present on clouds and all type processing is done on cloud
only.This features allows user to access the software from any computer which
is connected to the internet
Storage as a Service
This service allows user to outsource their data storage needs to the
cloud.The user stores all his/her files on cloud but all kind of processing is
done by users PC.
Processing as a Service
This model provides user functionality to process complex combination on
cloud which consists of powerfull servers.Tasks which demand less processing
power are carried on users PC only.
Benefits Of Cloud Computing
Flexibility
Disaster recovery
Document control
Security
Environment Friendly
