GreenTouch Adds New Members
GreenTouch Consortium announces 17 new members
May 19, 2011
AMSTERDAM -- GreenTouch, a global industry initiative dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of information and communications technology (ICT) networks by a factor of 1,000, today announced that 17 new organizations from across the telecommunications, energy and academic sectors have joined the consortium, bringing the total number of member organizations to 46, involving more than 300 participants.
These new members -- which include service providers, equipment vendors, research institutions and universities -- will collaborate with existing GreenTouch members to research and invent technologies that will enable more energy-efficient networks, plus create the network architecture, specifications and roadmaps that will define them.
The new GreenTouch Consortium members, representing 12 countries and four continents, include:
Broadcom Corporation - United States
Carnegie Mellon University - United States
Chunghwa Telecom - Taiwan, R.O.C.
France Telecom-Orange - France
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Germany
Fujitsu - Japan
National ICT Australia Ltd. - Australia
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) - Japan
Politecnico di Torino - Italy
TNO - Netherlands
Tsinghua University - China
TTI - Spain
TU Dresden - Germany
University College London - United Kingdom
University of Delaware - United States
University of Manchester - United Kingdom
University of Toronto - Canada"Momentum and interest in GreenTouch continue to build around the world, as evidenced by both the exciting addition of all these new members, as well as the standing-room-only audience that attended the open-to-the-public Open Forum session that was held as part of our Members Meeting in Seoul last month," said Gee Rittenhouse, chairman of the GreenTouch Consortium and vice president of research at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.
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