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GreenTouch ™ Initiative Fast Facts

• The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry currently accounts for 2 percent of worldwide carbon emissions and that figure is expected to at least double over the next decade as more people seek to connect with each other and with more content in new, richer ways.
• Leading research institutions and service providers have launched an ambitious, global initiative to make communications networks dramatically more energy efficient than they are today.
• The goal of the GreenTouch Initiative is to achieve a 1000-fold improvement in the future energy efficiency of the Internet and other networks that support communications, commerce and entertainment.
• The goal is bold, but achievable. Recent research suggests that key technology limits are still 10,000 times below current operating levels.
• Today’s networks are optimized for performance, not energy efficiency.  A network optimized for performance and energy implies a very different design and architecture and this is what is needed to be sustainable in the future.
• The GreenTouch Initiative will harness the innovation and expertise of the entire Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry to invent the technologies that will be at the heart of sustainable networks in the decades to come
• Our goal is to specify by 2015 the architecture and demonstrate key components needed to dramatically increase network energy efficiency.
• Our members are from across the ICT industry and represent leading research organizations, universities, equipment manufacturers, and network operators.
• GreenTouch was initiated by the following organizations: AT&T, Bell Labs, China Mobile, Samsung, Stanford University Wireless Systems Laboratory, MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics, Huawei, Freescale, FCM, CEA-LETI, INRIA (The National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), IMEC (Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum), France Telecom Orange Labs, Swisscom, Telefonica, Portugal Telecom, and the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES).