GREEN NETWORKING
Three steps to building a sustainable enterprise Building Blocks By Manish Sablok, Head of Marketing for Northern Europe, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Manish Sablok argues that enterprises can build more sustainable businesses by adopting a dynamic approach that encompassing three inter- related building blocks: network infrastructure, workforce collaboration, and business processes.
There are three key building blocks to create a sustainable enterprise: Networks, building an energy efficient network infrastructure in order to support collaboration; people, enabling a workforce to work effectively whilst retaining a lower carbon footprint; and business processes, ensuring that they can be managed effectively without increasing the carbon footprint. All three areas are dynamically inter- related into what we call the dynamic enterprise, which, with new enabling technology, can help organisations to build a more sustainable enterprise. Businesses are dynamic. Users of
corporate networks are increasingly bringing in personal devices and requiring access to the network from remote locations, so the implications of not having an efficient network infrastructure can be huge. By having both a powerful and an energy efficient network in place, enterprises significantly benefit from providing remote access and enabling multiple devices to be used, whilst at the same time reducing their carbon footprint.
Energy Efficiency There are energy efficient switches on the market that make a significant impact on overall energy consumption. By using this new generation of switches within corporate networks, enterprises can build a much more dynamic network, tuned to cope with an individual company‘s users, applications, devices and locations. This results not only in better services, streamlined operations and lower management costs for IT, the switch itself also delivers the lowest power consumption on the market at less than 1.5 watts per non-blocking Gigabit per second bandwidth. Data centre consolidation can enable
an enterprise to leverage resources better across the entire network infrastructure, whilst at the same time reducing the environmental impact of their networks. Costs can be significantly reduced and operational efficiency increased by maximising the value of a network by providing a platform for new services, whilst increasing business agility and resiliency simultaneously.
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Carbon Tiptoes The dramatic increase in the use of multiple devices and changing user habits such as remote working are driving the need for businesses to put in place a unified communication and collaboration strategy. You may have the switching power, but you also need the ability to support flexible working across the enterprise. Your workforce needs to be able to communicate and collaborate effectively across a more dynamic enterprise. Again, a new generation of
communications software is driving
this change. Unified Communication and Collaboration (UC&C) enables anywhere, any time and any device application access. This is vital for an enterprise looking to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs.
What does it mean? This means that enterprises need to offer employees the same user experience everywhere, regardless of whether they‘re based in the office, working from home or are at a remote location. Employees can achieve increased productivity and efficiency whilst still reducing each individual‘s carbon footprint.
Enterprises need to offer employees the same user experience everywhere.
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