Orange, Huawei eye energy efficient networks

Orange and Huawei have reaffirmed their commitment to reduce their CO2 emissions 50 percent per customer by improving the energy efficiency of their networks

Orange and Huawei this week reaffirmed their commitment to improving the energy efficiency of networks.

The two companies have been working together to reduce power consumption and CO2 emissions since 2013, and have developed energy-saving features for fixed and mobile networks, some of which Orange has begun to roll out.

The announcement, made on Wednesday outlines the next steps Orange and Huawei will take to make networks greener.

"This partnership will accelerate the implementation of high energy-efficient solutions in Orange's infrastructures to achieve our 2020 objective of reducing CO2 emissions per customer-usage by 50%," said Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière, senior EVP of Orange's innovation, marketing and technologies division, in a statement.

Among the areas covered by the agreement is research into new components and signal processing algorithms that will improve the performance of mobile network power amplifiers.

Orange and Huawei will also look to network functions virtualisation (NFV) to optimise network performance.

In addition, the companies plan to make greater use of liquid cooling – which is more efficient that air cooling – and conduct tests of solar and wind-based renewable energy technology.

"This innovative approach in research and development of ecosystems will assist society in energy and environmental transition," said Jégo-Laveissière.

Source: Total Telecom