EXTON, PA – The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) announced a multi-year campaign by the SCTE Energy Management Program to designed to cut energy costs and reduce power consumption.
Dubbed ‘Energy 2020’, the collaborative venture brings together the collective vision and technology expertise of cable operators and the vendor community to achieve maximum customer uptime and enablement of cable network capacity growth via successful organization, customer and environmental energy solutions. The program is intended to create alignment on standards and best practices, to drive design and implementation of equipment, and to create SCTE training resources that will enable workforce teams to optimize technology for maximum efficiency.
Goals for the program include:
– Reduction of power consumption by 20% on a unit basis;
– Energy cost reduction by 25% on a unit basis;
– Reduction of grid dependency by 10%;
– Optimization of technical facilities and datacenters footprint by 20%; and
– Establishment of vendor partnerships that will impact hardware development by the end of the decade.
Leveraging the input of a dozen U.S. and international operators, Energy 2020 has identified 12 primary initiatives across the five categories of Facilities, Plant, Operations, Technology, and Marketing/Regulatory. SCTE Standards Program members will work directly with operator teams on an eight-step process that will take each initiative from concept through completion.
SCTE and the SCTE Energy Management Program stakeholder operators will unveil further details and implications of the program during a special session at SCTE Cable Tec Expo 2014, to be held September 22-25, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.
