ATIS’ Sustainability Initiatives

1. Gale Lightfoot Senior Staff Program Manager, Office of the CTO, SPB Cisco ATIS’ Sustainability Initiatives

2. Highlight of Current Activities • ATIS and its membership aim to: • Demonstrate environmental leadership and awareness. • Advance the ICT industry’s ability to develop solutions that improve energy efficiency and sustainability as ICT evolves. • Promote standards and global awareness/acceptance of ATIS Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection Committee (STEP) Standards.

3. Highlight of Current Activities • ATIS’ Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection (STEP) Committee addresses sustainability projects in its Telecommunications Energy Efficiency Subcommittee (TEE): • Released 7 Standards outlining measurement methods for calculating telecommunication equipment energy ratio (TEER). • Addressing TEER in DSL network equipment (restricted to ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2plus, VDSL2). • Addressing Radio Base Stations, which have the highest cumulative energy consumption because of the large number of RBSs in a network. Revisions are expected to include dynamic aspects of measurement. • Active exchange of information and harmonization with ETSI Environmental Engineering (EE), the Broadband Forum, and ITU-T SG5 on related work matters.

4. Highlight of Current Activities • Upcoming Work Items in STEP TEE: • Optical Access Network Equipment • Wireless Core – xGSN • Firewalls • Network Level Energy Efficiency • Integrated Devices (e.g., router/firewall) • Power Systems • Small cells • Storage Devices • IPTV (Components/IPTV Forum) • Microwave Backhaul • Multi-vendor Modular Products • NCTE • iNID • ONT • General CPE • Gateways • IMS Products • DPI Deep Packet Inspection.

5. Highlight of Current Activities • STEP Network Physical Protection Subcommittee (NPP) is addressing a new Standard on distributed refrigerant-based cooling of telecom equipment, which will increase facility energy efficiency where adopted, and the most efficient means of airflow into and out of equipment to enable the most efficient cooling of that equipment. • STEP NPP recently published a standard addressing heat dissipation, airflow management, and power consumption requirements for network equipment in central office and outside plant environments. • Heat dissipation and airflow data can be used to assure equipment reliability and sustainability through adequate cooling. • STEP Network Power System Subcommittee (NPS) is addressing direct current (DC) in data centers for purposes of improving overall facility energy conversion efficiency, and DC power system architectures for evolving networks.

6. Highlight of Current Activities • STEP’s Strategic Sustainability Task Force: • Created as an advisory platform for collaboration and coordination of sustainability work items under consideration by the STEP and its subcommittees. • Task Force findings: • There are a number of global sustainability and life cycle assessment (LCA) standards of considerable breadth already published and are actively in use; • These LCA standards produce similar results when any of the LCA evaluation processes are applied, and given common assumptions; and • Given the similarity in results, companies should select standards that best align with their processes. • As member companies gain experience in applying LCA processes, these conclusions may change.

7. Challenges Climate change is a global problem that would benefit from a global solution. Standards and best practices across the global landscape are not harmonized to meet the needs of the ICT industry’s multinational reach. There are multiple standards in the industry addressing similar topics and producing similar results.

8. Next Steps/Actions • Advance environmental sustainability on behalf of our member companies including: • Continue to advance sustainability and energy efficiency work in STEP; • Educate industry associations and other appropriate stakeholders of ATIS’ green standardization activities; and • Launch efforts to engage other standards developers to achieve globally harmonized solutions. • Assess issues associated with advancing wireless network energy efficiency. • Work with other standards organizations to achieve harmonized industry standards and specifications. • Continue to deliver critical industry standards; i.e., TEER specifications.

9. Proposed Resolution ATIS supports the reaffirmation of the Resolution (GSC-16/08).

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11. ATIS’ Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection (STEP) ATIS’ Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection (STEP) Telecommunications Energy Efficiency Subcommittee (TEE) is focused on developing standards and technical reports to define energy efficiency metrics (Telecommunication Equipment Energy Ratio (TEER), as well as operational practices for telecommunications components, systems and facilities. These measures allow for apples-to-apples energy efficiency comparisons of equipment/network-elements. The Network Physical Protection Subcommittee (NPP) is focused on physical protection and physical design of telecommunications network equipment and the facilities in which they are housed, as well as the use of lead or the restriction of lead in solder used in the manufacturing of telecommunications network equipment.

12. ATIS’ Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection (STEP) Network Power Systems (NPS) develops standards and technical reports relating to power systems and power systems interfaces with telecommunications load equipment. In addition STEP-NPS recommends positions on matters within its scope of expertise, under consideration by other national, regional and international standards development organizations. Network Electrical Protection (NEP) develops system-level Standards and Technical Reports relating to the electrical protection of telecommunications networks. Electrical stresses may include system-level electrostatic discharge (ESD) criteria for central office equipment, lightning and ac power influences, electromagnetic interference (EMI), and electro-magnetic pulse (EMP). Electrical protection methods may include equipotential bonding, grounding, and the application of electrical protection devices. Network facilities covered include telecommunications central offices, switching centers and similar type facilities, outside plant such as aerial, buried and underground wire and cable, and network plant at entrances to customer structures or buildings.

13. ATIS Energy Efficiency Standards • ATIS’ STEP Telecommunications Energy Efficiency (STEP TEE) subcommittee was established to produce a document or suite of documents for use by Service Providers to assess the true energy needs of equipment at time of purchase such as: • Energy use as a function of traffic • Energy use as a function of environmental conditions • Cooling Requirements • Suitability of a product for use with renewable energy sources • Improvements in environmental footprint through Life Cycle Assessments • Energy Using Products horizontal implementing measures • Standby and off-mode definitions • Standby and off-mode losses • Current work has focused on a uniform method for measuring telecommunication equipment energy consumption (power), as well as establishing efficiency metrics and reporting methods. • Subsequent documents in the STEP’s series of documents, planned for release over time, will cover other network and consumer equipment and devices including, but not limited to, core network routers and switches, outside plant equipment, gateways, and other CE devices, and power systems.

14. ATIS Energy Efficiency Standards • The STEP TEE has released the following TEER standards: • ATIS-0600015.2009, February 2009, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting – General Requirements • ATIS-0600015.01.2009, February 2009, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting -- Server Requirements • ATIS-0600015.02.2009, February 2009, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting – Transport Requirements • ATIS-0600015.03.2009, July 2009, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunications Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting for Router and Ethernet Switch Products • ATIS-0600015.04.2010, January 2010, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting DC Power Plant – Rectifier Requirements • ATIS-0600015.05, April 2010, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting Facility Energy Efficiency • ATIS-0600015.06.2011, November 2011, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting of Radio Base Station Metrics

15. ATIS Hazardous Waste Standards • With respect to hazardous waste reduction, the ATIS STEP NPP Pb-Free Working Group released the following documents. • Pb-Free Acceptance Criteria for Modules (ATIS-0600019.2009) was completed in January 2009, providing the test requirements for PB-free Subassembly Modules. This document exclusively focuses on those Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) items specific to the introduction of Pb-free components and does not address requirements for device specific qualifications. • Test Requirements for Pb-Free Circuit Packs (ATIS-0600020.2010) was completed in January 2010, providing the acceptance and testing Requirements for Pb-free circuit packs. This document exclusively focuses on those issues specific to Pb-free assembly and the introduction of Pb-free components into circuit packs, and does not address requirements for product specific qualification.

16. STEP Issues (Work Items) STEP Issue 76, Broadband Protection Considerations STEP Issue 91, Telecommunications Power Terminations STEP Issue 99, Airborne Contamination (Mixed Flowing Gas and Hygroscopic Dust) Requirements for Network Telecommunications Equipment Utilized in Central Office and Outside Plant Environments STEP Issue 102, Revision to address the open issues in DC Power Systems – Telecommunications Environment Protection STEP Issue 106, Revision of ATIS-0600315.2007, Voltage Levels for DC-Powered Equipment Used in the Telecommunications Environment STEP Issue 107, Study of Proposed Operating DC Voltage Levels for Line Powered Equipment STEP Issue 108R1, WirelineAccess Asymmetric Broadband Equipment Energy Efficiency Standard STEP Issue 109, Optical Access Network Equipment Energy Efficiency Standard STEP Issue 110, NPP Standards and their Contribution to Sustainability Initiatives STEP Issue 112, DC Power System Architectures for Evolving Networks STEP Issue 113, Distributed Refrigerant Cooling Infrastructure STEP Issue 114, Updates to ATIS-0600015.2009, February 2009, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting – General Requirements STEP Issue 115, Updates to ATIS-0600015.03.2009, July 2009, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunications Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting for Router and Ethernet Switch Products STEP Issue 116, Revision for ATIS-0600307.2007 Fire Resistance Criteria – Ignitability Requirements for Equipment Assemblies, Ancillary Non-Metallic Apparatus, and Fire Spread Requirements for Wire and Cable STEP Issue 120, Revision for ATIS-0600010.2007, Temperature, Humidity and Altitude Standards STEP Issue 121, Wireless (Radio Base Station) Equipment Energy Efficiency Standard, Release 2 STEP Issue 122, Updates to ATIS-0600015.01.2009, Energy Efficiency for Telecommunications Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting – Server Requirements STEP Issue 123, New TEER Supplemental Standard Energy Efficiency for Telecommunications Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting for Power Systems, DC/DC Converters STEP Issue 124, New TEER Supplemental Standard Energy Efficiency for Telecommunications Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting for Power Systems, DC/AC Inverters STEP Issue 125, New TEER Supplemental Standard Energy Efficiency for Telecommunications Equipment: Methodology for Measurement and Reporting for Power Systems, UPS STEP Issue 126, ATIS-0600313.2008, Electrical Protection of Telecommunications Central Offices and Similar Type Facilities STEP Issues page: http://www.atis.org/step/issues.asp