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Digital energy: sustainable ICT infrastructure from Huawei for intelligent carbon emission reduction

Digital energy: sustainable ICT infrastructure from Huawei for intelligent carbon emission reduction

Shenzhen, July 28, 2022: Speaking on the first day of the Huawei Win-Win Innovation Week, David Wang, Executive Director of the Board and Chairman of the ICT Infrastructure Managing Board of Huawei, highlighted in his keynote the power of innovation and intelligent technology in supporting industry partners to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to the rapidly evolving digital transformation. 

He expressed how developments in green technology and system-level innovation will increase energy efficiency. The ITU-T has adopted Network Carbon data/energy intensity (NCIe) as the unified energy efficiency metric to guide the industry’s green development roadmap. Huawei has developed innovative solutions for green sites, green networks, and green operations to increase network capacity and cut energy consumption per bit. These solutions will empower operators in the 5.5G era.

“As we move towards the 5.5G era, all industry players need to work together to bring standards to maturity and cultivate a thriving industry,” said Wang. He proposed three recommendations during his speech

  • The industry needs to work closely together to define the vision and roadmap for 5.5G.
  • The industry should define technology standards within the standards frameworks set by 3GPP, ETSI, and ITU.
  • All industry players should work together to promote a thriving industry ecosystem by incubating more use cases and accelerating digital, intelligent transformation.

Launching a new solution suite during the event, Huawei executives Ryan Ding, President of Huawei’s Carrier Business Group, and Dr. Philip Song, Huawei’s Carrier BG Chief Marketing Officer, discussed the role of sustainable ICT infrastructure in helping operators systematically build green network to simultaneously address traffic growth and support carbon emission reduction. This took place during the Green Development Solutions Launch, held on the second day of the event.

Ryan Ding, President of Huawei's Carrier Business Group_ssict_800_500

Ryan Ding 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”. He explained how every major advancement in history has been accompanied by a significant improvement in the energy efficiency of information transmission. He added that 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. 

Both computing power requirements and data traffic increase by more than 20% each year, driving the growth of digital economies and is expected to grow even further. 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.

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.

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.

Dr. Philip Song, Huawei's Carrier BG Chief Marketing Officer_ssict_800_500

Huawei also announced the launch of a new suite of green development solution. Dr. Philip Song delivered a speech titled “Developing Green ICT Infrastructure with Optimal Energy Efficiency”. He explained how the solution is aimed at helping operators systematically improve network energy efficiency: “The main objective of our solution launch today is to help operators systematically build green networks that simultaneously address traffic growth and carbon emission reduction.”

According to Song, technological innovation is required at three levels to help customers achieve green development goals:

  • At the site and equipment level, more integrated designs and new materials should be used to move sites fully outdoors, and increase equipment energy efficiency and the efficiency of using renewable energy.
  • In cross-site coordination and networking, a simplified network architecture and improved forwarding efficiency are required to maximize energy efficiency and make networks all-optical, simplified, and intelligent.
  • To achieve green O&M, new O&M and energy-saving policies should be more easily developed and delivered, and energy efficiency indicators and baselines should be made more visible, manageable, and optimizable.

At the event, Song launched Huawei’s green development solution with innovations at these three levels, as well as the new NCIe indicator system which supports this three-layer solution of green sites, green networks, and green operations.

Closing out his speech, Song also announced the opening of the Evergreen Land engagement room, where Huawei will meet with global operators to discuss in-depth about green development and ways to build the most energy-efficient ICT infrastructure. He reiterated, “Huawei is committed to working with operators to improve the energy efficiency of ICT infrastructure and create value using green ICT technologies.”

Green and intelligent transformation is the only way forward. Digital technologies have greatly promoted low-carbon and intelligent development. Over the past three years of commercial deployment, 5G networks have demonstrated outstanding performance and energy efficiency, helping carriers achieve business success.

For more information, please visit: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/events/winwin-innovation-week.

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