MONROE, La., July 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CenturyLink,
Inc. (NYSE: CTL) will reduce network power consumption by
approximately 22,000 megawatt-hours a year through a network
optimization project with Nokia.
Leveraging Nokia's fixed network professional services,
CenturyLink will optimize its network performance, create energy
efficiencies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"Our goal is to help ensure the long-term health of our
environment, joining with businesses that are focusing on ways to
promote and practice the intelligent use of resources," said
Pieter Poll, CenturyLink senior vice
president of infrastructure planning. "By optimizing our network,
we will reduce Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) power
consumption by 37 percent, which will be enough power to supply
approximately 2,000 homes with electricity for a year and will also
eliminate approximately 15,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas a
year."
Part of a green initiative to consolidate more than 400,000
legacy PSTN subscriber lines, the project is expected to help
reduce the power needed to run CenturyLink's legacy PSTN networks.
Utilizing Nokia's PSTN Smart Transform migration service, processes
and tools, CenturyLink will consolidate customers into a more
energy efficient telephone switch configuration. More information
about CenturyLink's sustainability efforts can be found in the 2015
CSR brochure:
http://www.centurylink.com/aboutus/docs/Corporate-Social-Responsibility-Report.pdf
"Having the right tools, processes and technology expertise in
place is critical to efficiently manage more mature PSTN networks
which can require a significant amount of resources, power and
costs to run," said Federico Guillén, president of Fixed Networks,
Nokia. "Working with CenturyLink, our services team was able to
quickly identify the various switches in the network that could be
consolidated which helps to drastically reduce power requirements
and ultimately the overall carbon footprint required to run those
networks."
About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in the
technologies that connect people and things. Powered by the
innovation of Bell Labs and Nokia
Technologies, the company is at the forefront of creating and
licensing the technologies that are increasingly at the heart of
our connected lives. With state-of-the-art software, hardware
and services for any type of network, Nokia is uniquely positioned
to help communication service providers, governments, and large
enterprises deliver on the promise of 5G, the Cloud and the
Internet of Things. http://nokia.com
About CenturyLink
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global
communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company enabling
millions of customers to transform their businesses and their lives
through innovative technology solutions. CenturyLink offers network
and data systems management, Big Data analytics and IT consulting,
and operates more than 55 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The company provides broadband, voice,
video, data and managed services over a robust 250,000-route-mile
U.S. fiber network and a 300,000-route-mile international transport
network. Visit CenturyLink for more information.
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