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Ericsson Wins SUPERCOMM EOS Award for Green Services
10036, SWEDEN, Oct 21, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced it won the SUPERCOMM EOS
Green Services award for its efforts to help operators reduce energy
consumption in their IP Edge and Carrier Ethernet deployments. The
award recognizes Ericsson's contributions to sustainability, and
helping service providers understand how platform design efficiencies
impact energy usage through new metrics that map the power needed to
deliver a service to a subscriber. The annual SUPERCOMM EOS awards,
which honor companies contributing cutting-edge network-enabled
voice, video and data communications, are judged by consultants,
technical journalists and service providers from the communications
industry. "2009 marks the inaugural year for an EOS Green Services
category," said John Salak, president of The Salak Group, organizer
of the SUPERCOMM EOS awards. "Ericsson's focus on reducing power
consumption and carbon footprint at the network edge and Metro
Ethernet was highly deserving of the honor and is an important
contribution in reducing telecom's impact on the environment." In
June 2009, Ericsson commissioned Iometrix, a well-known testing
authority, to conduct a series of lab tests to substantiate the new
metrics and assess the power consumption of the Ericsson SmartEdge
Multi-Service Edge Router and SM Metro Ethernet platform. The tests
measured the platforms' energy consumption as they scaled to support
increasing numbers of subscribers receiving Triple Play services.
Ericsson believes the results for the SmartEdge and SM set a new
benchmark for industry leading power consumption.
"Ericsson has an aggressive goal to reduce its life-cycle carbon
footprint by 40 percent over the next five years, measured as CO2 per
subscriber or port," said Elaine Weidman, VP Sustainability and
Corporate Responsibility at Ericsson. "Today's energy-related costs
can contribute up to 50 percent of an operator's opex, making energy
efficiency, and its measurement, critical at every point in the
network."
For more information regarding the tests and new power consumption
metrics, go to: www.ericsson.com/ipnetworking
Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services
to telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile
technologies, and provides support for networks with over 1 billion
subscribers and has a leading position in managed services. The
company's portfolio comprises of mobile and fixed network
infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimedia
solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The Sony
Ericsson and ST-Ericsson joint ventures provide consumers with
feature-rich personal mobile devices.
Ericsson is advancing its vision of "to be the prime driver in an
all-communicating world" through innovation, technology, and
sustainable business solutions. Working in 175 countries, more than
75,000 employees generated revenue of SEK 209 billion (USD 32.2
billion) in 2008. Founded in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm,
Sweden, Ericsson is listed on OMX NASDAQ, Stockholm and NASDAQ New
York.
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Ericsson Corporate Public & Media Relations Phone: +46 10 719 69 92
E-mail: press.relations@ericsson.com
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SOURCE: Ericsson North America
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