BALAN NAIR NAMED CO-CHAIR OF SCTE ‘ENERGY 2020’ PROGRAM
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BALAN NAIR NAMED CO-CHAIR OF SCTE ‘ENERGY 2020’ PROGRAM
Liberty Global Exec Joins Comcast’s John Schanz at Helm; Brings Global Reach to Program
JAN. 15, 2015 (Exton, PA)—Balan Nair, Executive
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Liberty Global, has been
named co-chair of the cable industry’s landmark "Energy 2020" plan, the
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) announced today.
Nair will work directly with John Schanz, Chief Network Officer and
Executive Vice President of Comcast Cable, to extend to the global
market the industry’s collaborative effort to meet ambitious targets for
energy use reduction and optimization by the end of the decade. Energy
2020 targets 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%; and
- Optimization of Technical Facilities and Datacenters Footprint by 20%.
Energy 2020 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
operational 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. SCTE Energy 2020
resources will be available worldwide through SCTE’s global brand, the
International Society of Broadband Experts (ISBE).
"Maximizing the potential of Energy 2020 requires an international
approach that will enable MSOs to leverage global technologies, will
expand markets for the vendor community and will increase the value of
SCTE resources," said Schanz. "The contributions of Balan Nair and his
Liberty Global team will be invaluable in helping us to execute on
opportunities that can help achieve the targets we seek for our
industry."
"By creating a single set of objectives, cable operators and SCTE
are laying the groundwork for a new wave of vendor innovation," said
Nair. "It’s important that vendors and operators worldwide participate
in the creation of standards and best practices in the near term, so
that the industry can reap the benefits of more efficient equipment and
facilities design in the purchase cycles ahead."
At SCTE Cable-Tec Expo®
2014, Schanz and other members of the Energy 2020 team laid out an
initial 10 tactical and strategic areas of focus for the program,
including: Energy Metrics; Energy Baselines; Access Network Efficiency;
Alternate Energy; Energy in Operations; Facility Classification; Energy
Efficiency in Facilities; Density and Consolidation; Fleet Optimization;
and Facility Climate Technology Optimization. Nair is program chair for
SCTE Cable-Tec Expo® 2015, scheduled for Tuesday through Friday, Oct. 13-16, in New Orleans.
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