Eco-news
January 20, 2010
Press Release - Vodafone Qatar and Alcatel-Lucent launch the first “green” mobile base station in Qatar
Vodafone Qatar and Alcatel-Lucent announced the deployment of the first hybrid powered Base Station in Qatar, using an integration of solar and wind energy.
January 13, 2010
The Blog - Video: What is Shannon’s Law?
The Green Touch™ Initiative is based on groundbreaking research Bell Labs conducted to answer the question: "What is the minimum amount of energy required to power communications networks?".
January 11, 2010
The Blog - Green Touch™: making communications networks 1,000 times more energy efficient
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, in collaboration with service providers and other leading research organizations around the world, is launching the Green Touch™ Initiative, a global consortium focused on making communications networks a 1,000 times more energy efficient than they are today. Gee Rittenhouse, head of Research at Bell Labs tells us more about it.
January 11, 2010
Press Release - Communications Turns Totally Green
Green Touch™ initiative targets 1000-fold improvement in energy efficiency by transforming Internet and communications networks.
December 15, 2009
The Blog - Keeping cool in the data center
It’s easy to see room for improvement when you know that close to half of the energy consumed within a data center is used just to maintain the server equipment at the required operating environment. The Modular Cooling solution provided by Alcatel-Lucent gives a path towards eco-sustainability with up to 90% more efficiency than conventional methods.
December 14, 2009
The Blog - Copenhagen: Seal the Deal!
Alcatel-Lucent is a signatory of ”Seal the Deal“, the UN worldwide petition for a fair climate agreement at Copenhagen. Why wouldn’t you sign as well?
December 10, 2009
Press Release - Vodafone and Alcatel-Lucent team up to develop smart metering in Germany
Vodafone Germany and Alcatel-Lucent today announced they will work together to develop an extensive offer for the German market that makes smarter use of energy by enabling consumers to access real-time information about their energy usage and make more informed decisions about their energy consumption of electricity, gas and water.
December 9, 2009
The Blog - Copenhagen: ICT, the ingredient for green and growth
“The world will become green, and the world wants to grow. ICT is a great medicine for both.” Today Ben Verwaayen sent a short video message for the audience at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
December 8, 2009
The Blog - Alcatel-Lucent joins the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index 2009
The Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) recognized Alcatel-Lucent as one of the 20 French leading companies in terms of transparency and communication on their climate impact.
December 7, 2009
The Blog - Copenhagen: ICT, a great medicine for climate change
Gee Rittenhouse, VP Bell Labs Research, Alcatel-Lucent, spoke today at the ITU “IseeT@COP15″ kiosk addressing the participants of the UN Conference on Climate Change.
December 4, 2009
The Blog - Alcatel-Lucent awarded France’s Green Digital Growth Prize
Good news! Our Alternative Energy Program has been selected as part of the winners of the 1st Green Digital Growth prize (”Prix de la croissance verte numérique“), organized by a number of French ministries and institutions, for its first end-to-end “green” mobile base station solution powered with alternative energies (solar, wind, fuel cells, etc.).
December 4, 2009
Press Release - Alcatel-Lucent awarded France’s Digital Green Growth Prize
Recognizes industry’s first “green mobile base station end-to-end solution.
November 24, 2009
The Blog - Alcatel-Lucent’s Alternative Energy program bridges two worlds
The alternative energy sector produces exciting new technologies, designs, and concepts everyday. Not a week goes by without a new revolutionary wind turbine design, or new promises of solar panels energy efficiency!
November 19, 2009
The Blog - Sean Dolan speaks about environmental sustainability at Mobile Asia Congress
Sean Dolan, President of Alcatel-Lucent’s Asia Pacific business, today spoke as part of a keynote panel session at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress event in Hong Kong.
November 18, 2009
The Blog - Green Manifesto: ICT industry a critical partner in tackling climate change… The time is NOW for action
The countdown to Copenhagen has started and there are just a few weeks left before the United Nations Climate Change talks this December. We urge today’s global leaders to recognize the critical transformative role of ICT in reducing global CO2 emissions and tackling climate change.
November 10, 2009
The Blog - Ben Verwaayen: "Set the bar high on climate change and business will jump"
Expectations are very high, that is from normal people like you and me. Negotiators work hard to dampen those expectations. What I am talking about? Climate Change of course.
October 26, 2009
Video - Highlights from the BSR Conference 2009: what you should say to your CEO
Last week, Ben Verwaayen spoke at the BSR Conference in San Francisco, talking about the global crisis affecting all of us, and its three elements: finance, climate change and confidence.
October 21, 2009
White Paper - Alcatel-Lucent IMS: the green choice makes economic sense
The TDM based infrastructure prevalent today consumes a significant amount of electricity and space – and the associated impact on carriers Opex budgets. This electricity and space also have an environmental impact – in the US alone that impact is equivalent to 300,000 cars.
October 16, 2009
Video - Customer Perspectives on Eco-Sustainability
In this video, Vivek Badrinath from Orange and Michael Lawrey from Telstra Networks and Services share their perspectives on eco-sustainability. They explain their engagement for a low carbon economy and explain why they select vendors committed to lowering their carbon footprint and to delivering sustainable products.
October 14, 2009
The Blog - Smart Metering: Powering innovative solutions
By Rudi Strubbe, Smart Metering & M2M - Last week I participated to Metering Europe 2009, a three-day conference with some 150 industry thought leaders presenting and discussing case studies on the smart metering business. With an international audience of more than 3,000 participants, all aspects of smart metering, smart grids, meter data management, energy efficiency challenges were covered. With more than 10 years of helping utilities transform their operational networks, Alcatel-Lucent – gold sponsor of the event – was there to share its expertise and promote smart metering solutions as a way to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
October 13, 2009
Press Release - Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs and Korea’s Gachon Energy Research Institute collaborate in next generation power grid research
Research program to accelerate evolution to more eco-sustainable power grid systems - Alcatel-Lucent today announced that its research arm, Bell Labs, and the Gachon Energy Research Institute (GERI) of Korea’s Kyungwon University have entered into a joint research agreement to design mission-critical communication infrastructure, comprehensive security systems, and develop innovative businesses models for the next-generation smart power grid (Smart Grid).
October 7, 2009
Press Release - Alcatel-Lucent and its partners deliver Germany’s first smart metering managed service package to Stadtwerke Pasewalk
Alcatel-Lucent has signed an agreement with the German municipal utility Stadtwerke Pasewalk GmbH to implement smart meter operation services. The solution will help the municipal utility address the multiple challenges that are imposed on utilities throughout Europe to both respond to economic pressure from stakeholders and regulators for greater asset efficiency as well as reducing their environmental impact.
October 6, 2009
Press Release - Alcatel-Lucent and KELAG to test an end-to-end smart metering solution for efficient energy measurement in Austria
Alcatel-Lucent today announced it has started a pilot project with KELAG Netz GmbH, an Austrian power and gas supplier and energy network operator based in Carinthia, for the deployment and integration of a smart metering infrastructure.
September 29, 2009
The Blog - Alcatel-Lucent engagement in activities to promote Smart Grid technology
Last week the U.S Commerce Department issued its roadmap for Smart Grid technology. Alcatel-Lucent has been an active participant in this effort and is working with governments and utilities around the world to help them design more efficient systems that enable individuals to make better use of the power they use and is engaged in several national, regional and international activities to promote low- carbon ICT solutions.
September 25, 2009
Video - Eco-sustainability is an engine for change (Part 2)
Part 2: Being green is going to be normal operating procedure. This is the Part 2 of the interview with Marc Benowitz, Environmental Engineering and Richard Goode, Climate Change Programs, Alcatel-Lucent.
September 24, 2009
The Blog - WEF’s Low-Carbon Prosperity Task Force and EU Broadband Code of Conduct
As leaders across the world gather at New York this week, there is so much the private sector and particularly our ICT industry can do to support government efforts to deal with this major global challenge.
September 23, 2009
Video - Eco-sustainability is an engine for change (Part 1)
Part One: “Eco-sustainability is not a cost, but an opportunity” This video is the first one in a series of two, featuring Marc Benowitz and Rich Goode, from Alcatel-Lucent.
September 22, 2009
The Blog - Alcatel-Lucent signs Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change
On behalf of the company, Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen signed the Copenhagen Communiqué on Climate Change – reinforcing the company’s commitment to play an active role in tackling climate change.
September 22, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent signs European Union’s Code of Conduct on Energy Consumption of Broadband Equipment
Alcatel-Lucent today announced that it has signed the European Union’s Code of Conduct on Energy Consumption of Broadband Equipment.
September 9, 2009
Press release - IEC InfoVision Award for Alcatel-Lucent’s eco-sustainable optical networking terminals
Alcatel-Lucent announced that it has received the IEC InfoVision Award in the category “Enabling Silicon and Component-Level Technologies” for the introduction of its next-generation, GPON indoor optical networking terminals (ONTs).
September 7, 2009
The Blog - Eco-sustainable wireless networks: Ready for prime time
Wireless networks create economic development prospects for communities in emerging countries, many of which currently lack good communications services of any kind. However, lack of reliable electricity sources to power the base stations – the capillaries of wireless networks – has been a substantial obstacle.
September 4, 2009
The Blog - ICT can create innovative solutions that lead to emission reductions
Emissions from the information and communications technology sector are set to rise, but ICT could be the solution to and not the source of high emissions according to Marc Benowitz, Director of Eco-Environmental Engineering at Alcatel-Lucent in an interview published on the European Commision’s web site as part of the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP).
September 4, 2009
Video - World’s first alternative energy pilot site for wireless networks
In June 2009, Alcatel-Lucent announced the operational launch of the first alternative energy laboratory and pilot site in the world dedicated to the telecoms sector.
August 10, 2009
TMCnet - How Green is Your Network? Increasing Operational Sustainability
In the words of a popular Muppet, it's not easy being green. But enterprises looking to improve their overall operations understand the importance the practice is taking for technology vendors.
July 01, 2009
White Paper - Eco-efficiency in action
Alcatel-Lucent sustainability solutions for access networks (pdf/525 KB).
July 01, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent launches world’s first “green DSL”
Alcatel-Lucent’s Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) provides more bandwidth with 25% less power.
June 02, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent opens world’s first alternative energy laboratory and pilot site dedicated to the telecoms market
Technology developed at Bell Labs will make it possible for the more than one billion people in areas not served with electricity to access advanced communications services.
May 28, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent issues eco-friendly 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility report; Eco sustainability and civic involvement key initiatives throughout year
Alcatel-Lucent today released its 2008 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, posting it on the company’s web site rather than printing thousands of paper copies. Alcatel-Lucent also is taking this virtually paperless approach with its 2008 financial report as one step to help the company reach its aggressive goal of cutting its 2008 carbon emissions in half by 2020.
April 23, 2009
Feature article - Earth Week: Transforming communications sustainably
Alcatel-Lucent celebrates Earth Week (April 19 to 25) around the globe by launching several initiatives to spotlight its efforts toward reducing the company’s carbon footprint and to establish an eco-attitude throughout its global operations.
April 20, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent celebrates Earth Week with launch of eco-sustainability awareness campaign
Campaign part of global sustainability program aimed at encouraging innovative efforts to deploy more energy-efficient networks.
March 27, 2009
Feature article - Alcatel-Lucent participates in the Earth Hour and encourages its employees to take part to it
This global initiative is in keeping with Alcatel-Lucent’s Caring for Climate program as part of its overall Corporate Social Responsibility strategy.
February 18, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent and DIEHL Energy Solutions collaborate in Germany to enable more efficient energy and water consumption measurement
Alcatel-Lucent is expanding its involvement in the market for data measurement and recording for energy and water consumption and has signed a collaboration agreement with DIEHL Energy Solutions, a division of DIEHL Metering.
February 17, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent demonstrates up to 27 percent power consumption reduction on base stations deployed by China Mobile
Software upgrades can offer exceptional power and cost savings for mobile operators worldwide.
February 17, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent’s Alternative Energy Program is telecom market’s first solution for high-volume deployment of wireless base stations powered with alternative energies
New program will enable the company to address estimated market of more than 100 000 sites by 2012.
February 12, 2009
Press release - Alcatel-Lucent expands portfolio with eco-sustainable broadband access gear that further reduces environmental impact of fiber-based networks
FTTH Council Europe Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 12, 2009 – Alcatel-Lucent today highlighted its leading role in bringing to the market innovative technologies that have a proven, positive impact on green house gas emissions.
