Dubai Energy Efficiency Summit: Building a Greener and Better Connected World
[Dubai, Nov. 20, 2015] Huawei held an Energy Efficiency Summit in Dubai on November 18th and 19th with the theme “Maximizing Network Energy Efficiency.” More than 100 energy experts from the world’s leading telecom carriers, including Etisalat, STC, Telefonica, and TI (Telecom Italia), together with representatives from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Frost & Sullivan attended the event and presented keynotes to share insights and experiences on the telecom energy industry.
More than 100 energy experts from the world’s leading telecom carriers attended this summit
With the rapid development of MBB and FBB, continuous network evolution and the trend towards ultra-broadband, 4.5G, 5G, big data, sites are deployed in massive numbers and energy consumption is taking away profits. Telecom carriers are now facing the challenge of how to maximize network energy efficiency, significantly reduce OPEX and improve profitability.
James Qiao, Vice President of Huawei’s Telecom Energy Business, put forward suggestions for practical standards and key performance indicators that Huawei believes will help promote the development of a network energy industry. “Based on in-depth studies and field practices of NIEE (Network Infrastructure Energy Efficiency), and NTEE (Network Telecom Equipment Efficiency), Huawei has been assisting telecom carriers in measuring NEE (Network Energy Efficiency) and developing effective energy efficiency strategy and plans that meet their long term growth needs,”
Qiao explained in his keynote. He elaborated Huawei’s view on industry trends, future network architecture evolution, energy infrastructure evolution, as well as Huawei's end-to-end highly efficient power supply and renewable energy solutions, energy efficiency management along with the ultra-broadband network evolution, and shared a selection of studies and global successful cases around network architecture evolution, new generation site architecture, network equipment efficiency improvement and infrastructure efficiency improvement.
During the summit, energy specialists from leading global telecom carriers also shared their energy strategy, innovative ideas, best practices, and discussed about the value-based future development directions and innovations on the network energy arena.
Etisalat: Salem Mannaei, Vice President, Infrastructure Management, Etisalat Group, proposed a strategy that combines efficient network architecture, efficient network equipment, and intelligent features. Etisalat has taken a series of actions to improve energy efficiency, such as introducing new energy and hybrid power solutions and modernizing old wireless sites. These actions greatly improve energy efficiency for Etisalat's network and power infrastructure, setting a good example of maximizing network energy efficiency.
STC: STC has accelerated the modernization of its energy networks and has seen a significant reduction in OPEX. Mohammed Ibrahim Almuqbil, Electro Works Manager, STC Wireless Civil explored the way to green energy networks by sharing the company's end-to-end energy efficiency optimization plan and staged execution.
Telenor: Ivaylo Ivanov, Electromechanical Expert, Technology Implementation Division, at Telenor, shared Telenor's future strategies, and emphatically introduced the efficient O&M strategy among Telenor's top three strategies. Telenor plans to optimize the primary equipment, power equipment, and cooling equipment, and adopt new energy sources to improve O&M efficiency, reduce O&M costs, and enable efficient and green telecom networks.
TI: Claudio Bianco, Senior Energy Architect, Telecom Italia Research Center introduced TI's energy consumption changes from 2012 to 2015. In recent years, TI has intensified efforts in patents and standards formulation with ITU and GSMA to improve the effectiveness in energy efficiency management. Mr.Bianco also shared the details of the series of actions TI has taken on next-generation data center, virtualization, and site energy efficiency solutions to improve network energy efficiency of TI's broadband networks.
At the summit, Huawei showcased its new generation MTS (Migrate Towards Simplicity) telecom power solutions and portfolio, which covers all indoor, outdoor, central office, and hybrid power scenarios. Huawei demonstrated new generation power solutions and intelligent components, such as DC power for future Data Center and CO sites, multi-vendor site controllers, site-sharing embedded power, and unified network and energy management system designed to help Telecom Service Providers build simple, efficient, reliable and intelligent telecom energy networks.
Huawei showcased its new generation MTS telecom power solutions and portfolio
Roberta Gamble, Vice President, Frost & Sullivan remarked, “The telecom power market will continue to grow in the coming years. Big data technologies, internet of things, and innovative high efficiency energy solutions will place great influence on the telecom energy industry. Innovation will be the key for the solution suppliers to succeed in the market. ”
Huawei will continue working together with the whole industry and across industries, to develop new business models, new technologies, innovative products, and optimal solutions to satisfy the market needs for building a better and greener connected world.
