Global Vision
GreenTouch is a consortium of leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, academic and non-governmental research experts dedicated to fundamentally transforming communications and data networks, including the Internet, and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of ICT devices, platforms and networks.
Global Mission
By 2015, our goal is to deliver the architecture, specifications and roadmap — and demonstrate key components — needed to increase network energy efficiency by a factor of 1000 from current levels.
GreenTouch members and the global community will benefit from:
- A reinvention of today’s telecommunications networks
- A sustainable future for data networking and the Internet
- Unprecedented collaboration with leading experts from around the world
- Participation in fundamental research in exciting new areas
- Access to network models and studies examining key energy related issues
- Information on network power consumption, traffic growth, and energy trends
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