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Greentouch

London, January 11, 2010 – The world took a big step closer today to a green and more sustainable communications future with the launch of Green Touch™, a global consortium organized by Bell Labs whose goal is to create the technologies needed to make communications networks 1000 times more energy efficient than they are today.

A thousand-fold reduction is roughly equivalent to being able to power the world’s communications networks, including the Internet, for three years using the same amount of energy that it currently takes to run them for a single day.

Anything we can do to improve the energy efficiency of the communications network has to be a good thing for the end user and the service provider both in terms of environmental responsibility and in operational costs. It will be interesting to see if any new best practices or technologies result from this announcement, I’m off to read up more.

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