At the Green Development Solution Launch held on the second day of 
Win-Win·Huawei Innovation Week, Ryan Ding, President of Huawei's Carrier 
Business Group, stressed the need for operators to prioritize energy efficiency 
and called for the establishment of a standard, industry-wide indicator system 
for energy efficiency during his keynote speech titled "Green ICT for New 
Value".

Ding explained, "Every major advancement in history has been accompanied by a 
significant improvement in the energy efficiency of information transmission. 
The increase in carbon emissions generated by exploding data traffic will 
become a global problem that must be tackled in the next five to ten years. 
Increasing energy efficiency will be the way forward."

According to third-party research, data traffic generated by digital services 
is expected to grow by 13-fold over 2020 by 2030. This means that, if energy 
efficiency improvements are not made, the ICT industry's energy consumption and 
carbon emissions will see a 2.3-fold increase. According to ITU, the ICT 
industry will need to reduce its carbon emissions by at least 45% by 2030 to 
meet the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris 
Agreement's goal.

Ding said, "We are now facing an unprecedented challenge: As more and more 
industries are going digital, the demand for data will rise sharply, which will 
result in a surge in energy consumption. In the meantime, the whole world is 
working to combat climate change, and the ICT industry must urgently achieve 
carbon peak and carbon neutrality."

Improvements to energy efficiency will benefit operators in three ways. First, 
user migration, site upgrades, and network power reduction will bring them OPEX 
savings. Second, improved energy efficiency will support the migration of 2G 
and 3G users to 4G and 5G services. Third, operators' efforts to reduce carbon 
footprint will positively impact the environment, helping them better fulfill 
their social responsibilities.

To help operators achieve these goals, Huawei has proposed a three-layer 
solution: green sites, green networks, and green operations. First, they have 
developed solutions to improve site energy efficiency by adopting a highly 
integrated design, using new materials, and moving main equipment and power 
supply units outdoors. Second, the company's simplified network architecture 
makes forwarding faster and supports the construction of simplified, 
all-optical, and intelligent networks. Finally, at the operations level, Huawei 
offers a solution that generates and distributes optimization policies while 
making energy efficiency more visualized and manageable.

So far, these green development solutions have been deployed for operators in 
more than 100 countries. In Germany, for example, Huawei's PowerStar solution 
has helped realize minute-level energy efficiency self-optimization, improving 
energy efficiency greatly. In Spain, Huawei's optical cross-connect (OXC) 
solution has been deployed on a customer's backbone network, increasing energy 
efficiency by 81% and reducing costs by 29%. In Turkey, Huawei has deployed its 
green site solution for a customer, where equipment rooms are replaced with 
cabinets, eliminating the need for equipment rooms and air conditioners. The 
solution is expected to save 19,000 kWh of electricity per site per year.

Huawei and its operator partners are already working together to increase their 
"carbon handprint" by empowering carbon-intensive industries to boost energy 
efficiency using ICT solutions. The emissions reduction they enable can be 10 
times their own emissions. Many success stories have already been seen in key 
carbon-intensive industries like ports, coal mining, and steel.

At the end of his speech, Ding called on the establishment of a unified, 
industry-wide indicator system as this would help establish baselines against 
which energy efficiency can be measured and serve as a guide for the green 
development of the ICT industry as a whole. Ding closed out his speech saying, 
"Huawei is ready to work with operators and create new value with green ICT."

The NCIe energy efficiency indicator system proposed by Huawei has been 
approved by ITU-T SG5 and is now in the process of public consultation.

The Win-Win·Huawei Innovation Week is held from July 18 to July 21 in Shenzhen, 
China. Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion 
leaders, we dive into topics such as 5.5G, green development, computing 
networks, and digital transformation to envision shared success in the digital 
economy. For more information, please visit: 
https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/winwin-innovation-week.

SOURCE Huawei

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