Bell Labs’ Green Touch initiative set to instate a green future

This is certainly a rare initiative but aside from this, also owing to its noble aim and the colossal endeavor to attain the same, Alcatel-Lucent’s research division, Bell Labs has the right to have both approval and commendation of ours. We have no other way too for the reason that Bell Labs became instrumental in leading the launch of a global consortium of academics, operators and vendors on Monday, tasked with the remit of developing technologies proficient of making the global communications network 1000 times more energy efficient than it is at the moment.

While the launching event was going on in London, it was found that the Green Touch initiative had under its sway noted researchers from industry, academia and government labs, and the enterprise proposed to invent and convey sweeping new approaches to energy efficiency that will play decisive roles in the realm sustainable networks in future. However, what did haunt the invitees was the striking absence of industrial peers on the founders’ roster, but the undaunted Green Touch initiative, in spite of that, didn’t withdraw from issuing an open invitation to all members of the tech and communications community to join the initiative.

On the word of Jeong Kim, President of Bell Labs, the end game of a thousand fold reduction is almost synonymous to being able to power the world’s communications networks, including the internet, for three years using the same amount of energy that it now takes to run them for a single day. He said that this kind of shift has need of a redesigning of the global network’s infrastructure components from the ground up.

“From time to time we need to make a system level change, and not just make incremental advancements to existing technology,” Kim said. “But in order to do this, we need collaboration between engineers and scientists.”

Some of the founding members of the initiative include service providers AT&T, China Mobile, Portugal Telecom, Swisscom and Telefonica; academic research labs: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Research Laboratory for Electronics (RLE), Stanford University’s Wireless Systems Lab (WSL), the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES).