China's Huawei Joins GreenTouch Consortium

Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei has joined the GreenTouch consortium, an industry group which aims to make communications networks 1000 times more energy efficient than they are today.

In addition to expanding its membership, this week the GreenTouch consortium
reached a crucial milestone in its development - convening an inaugural meeting of
its founding members to establish an operating framework, set out guidelines for
intellectual property management and define technology parameters. 
 
As a member of the consortium, Huawei will join fifteen other leaders from
industry, academia and government labs who have come together to invent and
deliver radical new approaches to energy efficiency that will be at the heart of
sustainable networks in the decades to come. Videos describing the GreenTouch
mission can be viewed at http://www.greentouch.org/index.php?page=videos
 
"We regard reducing energy consumption through the development of green
solutions as an imperative,"  Yingtao LI, President of Central R&D Unit of
Huawei said in a prepared statement. "The future of our company and, for that matter, of the telecoms industry
is inextricably linked with environmental sustainability and the GreenTouch
consortium has a vision and a goal that is in line with our aspirations."
 
The addition of Huawei brings the number of GreenTouch members to sixteen
including:
 
Service Providers: AT&T, China Mobile, Portugal Telecom, Swisscom, Telefonica 
 
Academic Research Labs: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Research
Laboratory for Electronics (RLE), Stanford University's Wireless Systems Lab (WSL), the
Service Providers: AT&T, China Mobile, Portugal Telecom, Swisscom, Telefonica 
 
Government and Nonprofit Research Institutions: The CEA-LETI Applied Research Institute
for Microelectronics (Grenoble, France), imec (Headquarters: Leuven, Belgium), The French
National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), Foundation for
Mobile Communications (Portugal)
 
Industrial Labs: Bell Labs, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Huawei,
Freescale Semiconductor