Press Release
[Copenhagen, Denmark, June 20, 2024] Huawei partnered with global Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and industry players including China Mobile, Hong Kong Telecom (HKT), South Africa Openserve, Saudi Arabia STC, Tsinghua University, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) and Eastcom Software won the TM Forum’s Best Moonshot Catalyst Award 2024 in Sustainability Challenge with the project “Sustainable Telco by Green Network Evolution”. This project built a GNED (Green Network Evolution and Digitization) integration platform based on digital and intelligent capabilities to support green network evolution, energy saving and carbon emission reduction that is applicable to different scenarios in improving network capabilities, supporting new service growth and enabling sustainable development of the telecom industry. In addition, it also empowers the green development of different vertical industries.
TM Forum Presents the Best Moonshot Catalyst Award to Huawei and partners
CSPs around the world face many challenges in sustainable development due to policy supervision, economic environment, technology restrain and resources limitation. For example, the energy utilization of equipment rooms is inefficient, the development of new services is restricted and unstable grid power supply. Traditional network development and operation cannot meet the requirements of low-carbon, efficient, intelligent and safety. Based on the GNED platform, this project helps to break the data silos of communication devices, energy auxiliary devices, sensors and vertical industry management systems. It introduces clean energy such as solar energy, and implements network architecture evolution, old device retirement, and equipment room renovation, to ensure the “Clean energy”, “Energy efficiency” and “Empowerment” are effectively implemented.
Based on this innovative solution, CSPs can efficiently and securely promote green network evolution. For example, CSPs can build green sites in rural, highway and offshore scenarios without stable grid power supply. By introducing intelligent cooling integrated cabinets and inference appliances, the solution implements green and intelligent reconstruction of old equipment rooms, greatly improving the energy efficiency, governance level of equipment rooms and providing strong support for the development of new services. This solution also contributes to energy saving and carbon reduction for vertical industries such as smart building and campus. In this project, the team has successful developed several practical cases, including “China Mobile’s 318 All-Solar Highway,” “Openserve’s Intelligent CO Transformation,” and “China Mobile Guangdong’s Enablement for Green Smart Buildings,” which fully demonstrated the feasibility and effectiveness of the project solution.
