GreenTouch News Conference to Showcase Consortium’s First New Technology On Road to Realizing Vision of Network Energy Eff
AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The GreenTouch Consortium, a global research initiative leading the charge to improve energy efficiency in information and communications technology (ICT) networks by a factor of 1,000 within five years, is hosting a news conference and webcast on Tuesday, February 1.
At the news conference being held at 15 Hatfields, London, GreenTouch members will demonstrate a proof-of-concept from among the many technologies it has under development. The event will also highlight critical milestones already reached by GreenTouch and address announcements slated for later in 2011.
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GreenTouch Consortium | |||
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News Conference and Webcast | |||
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 13:00-14:00 (GMT) | |||
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To register for the live event, please click here. |
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To register for the webcast, please click here. |
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This event will also feature presentations from several green technology visionaries, including: | |||
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‒ Gee Rittenhouse, Chairman of GreenTouch and one of the Global Telecoms Business Power100 |
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‒ Rod Tucker, GreenTouch Executive Board Member, Laureate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne |
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‒ Claude Monney, Green Touch Executive Board Member, Senior Engineer, Project Leader, Environment, Swisscom |
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‒ Luis Neves, GeSI Chairman & Vice President Corporate Responsibility, Deutsche Telekom |
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About GreenTouch
GreenTouch is a global consortium of leading service providers, academic and industrial research institutions and non-governmental organizations working together to define the challenges, identify the trends and issues, and develop solutions that will enable GreenTouch to achieve its goal: to deliver within five years the architecture, specifications, roadmap and demonstrations of key components needed to increase the energy efficiency of ICT networks ‒ in particular, the service provider networks that make up the Internet ‒ by a factor of 1,000 from current levels. In June 2010, GreenTouch received an award for energy efficiency innovation at the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards event. For more information, go to www.greentouch.org.
GreenTouch and the GreenTouch logo are trademarks of Stichting GreenTouch.
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CONTACT:
For GreenTouch
Paul Ross, +1-908-582-7710
paul.ross@alcatel-lucent.com
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John H. Ricciardone, +1-781-876-6285
jricciardone@greentouch.org
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