SCTE•ISBE Energy Standards and Operational Practices
The SCTE Standards Program is developing standards and operational practices in several key areas to improve the application of environmentally friendly and sustainable procedures and products, to create solutions that lower overall costs and increase overall performance. These documents are consensus developed and SCTE Engineering Committee approved SCTE standards. Many of these standards have been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and are so designated.
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Within the cable employee base, the following employees should be involved in the adoption, implementation, and utilization of SCTE Energy Standards and Operational Practices:
- Access network managers and engineers
- Outside plant managers and engineers
- Power supply managers and engineers
- Critical facilities managers, design engineers, and architects
- Cable operator datacenter managers and engineers
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- Cable operator energy managers and engineers
- Equipment engineering teams and inside plant equipment manufacturers
- Procurement managers, engineers, and teams
- Energy accounting managers
- Product developers and managers
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Critical Facility Energy Assessment Tool - SCTE ISBE is pleased to provide a
Critical Facility Energy Assessment Tool Overview that can help cable operators address
energy consumption at hubs and headends. As illustrated in the SCTE ISBE energy
pyramid, hubs and headends represent a significant portion of cable’s energy
footprint. SCTE has produced this tool as part of its membership to the
Villanova University RISE Program.
Documents at a glance - A single, consolidated list of all EMS published and in-process documents for use / reference by anyone interested in understanding the nature, applicability and status of all Energy-related standards and operating practices.
Vehicle Selection Workbook - Cable Operator Fleet Maintenance and Vehicle Selection Operational Practice
OPERATIONAL PRACTICE:
SCTE 184 2015 SCTE Energy Management Operational Practices for Cable Facilities
SCTE 184 provides guidelines for design and management of mission-critical hub site facilities supporting the cable industry. SCTE 184 focuses on information, methods, metrics, and processes that balance operational energy efficiency and management with essential business availability requirements and infrastructure investment. This guideline leverages existing industry best practices for smart energy use in vital cable edge facilities and applies these to the specific characteristics and requirements of cable systems hub sites.
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ANSI/SCTE 186 2012 Product Environmental Requirements for Cable Telecommunications Facilities
ANSI/SCTE 186 defines environmental and sustainability requirements for the following equipment including but not limited to: CMTSs, receivers, modulators, video encoders, multimedia gateways, servers, routers, switches, network equipment, network storage units, edge routers, add-drop multiplexors and edge QAMs. This standard aligns with ANSI/SCTE 203 2014 for validation of compliance through test methods.
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ANSI/SCTE 203 2014 Product Environmental Requirements for Cable Telecommunications Facilities —Test Methods
The specification purpose of ANSI/SCTE 2013 is to define test methods to evaluate equipment compliance with criteria specified in ANSI/SCTE 186 2012. This document specifies physical, environmental, electrical, and sustainability test procedures to evaluate equipment compliance with requirements defined in ANSI/SCTE 186 2012.
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SCTE 208 2014 Cable Operator Carbon Data Collection Recommended Practices
SCTE 208 defines the process and function of performing a carbon audit based on cable operator greenhouse gas emissions to establish and measure a baseline or year over year comparison of emissions by which subsequent audits may be compared.
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ANSI/SCTE 210 2015 Performance Metrics for Energy Efficiency & Functional Density of Cable Data Generation, Storage, Routing, and Transport Equipment
SCTE 210 enables a cable operator to determine how well a piece of rack or shelf equipment performs in terms of minimizing the power required to do its particular job. In addition, this standard provides the means to quantify the amount of useful work the equipment provides per physical space. This release focuses on the Digital Data Transport critical facility equipment.
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ANSI/SCTE 211 2015 Energy Metrics for Cable Operator Access Networks
SCTE 211 enables cable operators to measure how effective changes in the access network (AN) service impact energy consumption from both a high-level and functional operations perspective.
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ANSI/SCTE 212 2015 Cable Operator Energy Audit Framework and Establishment of Energy Baseline
SCTE 212 2015 ANSI/SCTE 212 2015 defines a framework for cable system operators to establish energy baselines for their facilities and networks.
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ANSI/SCTE 213 2015 Edge and Core Facilities Energy Metrics
SCTE 213 2015 ANSI/SCTE 213 2015 provides procedures that help cable operators measure how effective changes in the service impact energy consumption from both high level and functional work perspectives.
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ANSI/SCTE 216 2015 Adaptive Power Systems Interface Specification (APSISTM)
SCTE 216 2015 ANSI/SCTE 216 2015 enables cable operators to measure and
control energy consumption associated with delivery of services. SCTE 216
defines software interfaces that allow energy measurement and optimization
applications to command and control devices within a service delivery pipeline.
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SCTE 218 2015 Alternative Energy, Taxes, Incentives, and Policy Reference Document
SCTE 218 is an operational practice that provides cable operators with a resource to evaluate alternative energy technology options based on a given geographic location, facility type, and existing or planned infrastructure.
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SCTE 219 2015 Technical Facility Climate Optimization Methodology
SCTE 219 provides cable operators with guidelines to assess facilities’ existing energy efficiency and climate conditions, including recommended actions to improve air flow and facility climate conditions to reduce energy costs. Also included are advanced cooling technologies such as air side and water side economizers.
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SCTE 225 2015 Cable Operator Fleet Maintenance and Vehicle Selection Operational Practice
Cable operators run a distributed network covering thousands of miles connecting facilities to customers and facilities to facilities. This network requires maintenance, upgrades, installation and repairs. Also, new cable subscribers require visits to their site ensuring proper deployment of equipment and turn up of service. All of this is accomplished via a fleet of vehicles that if not managed optimally can impact both the company’s bottom line as well as environment.
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ANSI/SCTE 226 2015 Cable Facility Classification Definitions and Requirements
This document presents a five tier classification approach to provide cable operators with a framework in which to categorize facilities and critical infrastructure, prioritize investment decisions, establish availability expectations, and to define performance levels for the cable industry.
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SCTE 228 2016 Inventory of Energy Efficiency Practices for Broadband Provider Facilities
This document is meant to apply to the cable industries facilities including critical facilities, office space, call centers and warehouses. The scope of this document does not include the outside plant.
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SCTE 229 2016 Operational Practice for Cable Facility Design Process
This document addresses the design of cable facilities that house inside plant equipment which is part of the network through which services are delivered to customers.
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STANDARD:
SCTE 231 2019 General Test Procedures for
Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Metrics and in Support of Functional Density
Metrics
This document covers the general test
procedures that are common to all equipment types and specifies the
environmental conditions for evaluating cable equipment energy efficiency
metrics. Expectations of measurement equipment as well as guidelines on the
recording of results are also covered. This standard will be included as a
normative reference in each supplemental standard in the series covering metrics
and specific test procedures for the various equipment types.
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SCTE 232 2019 Key Performance Metrics:
Energy Efficiency & Functional Density of CMTS, CCAP, and Time Server Equipment
This document is the second of multiple parts in a
series that provides the cable operator with a standard reference to determine
how well a piece of rack or shelf equipment performs in terms of minimizing the
power required to do its particular job. In addition, this standard provides the
means to quantify the amount of useful work the equipment provides per physical
space. This part of the series focuses on the CMTS, CCAP, and other related
cable operator critical facility equipment.
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SCTE 234 2016 ISO 50001:2011 Energy Management
Systems, Energy Metrics, With Guidance For Use
In 2011 the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published 50001:
Energy management systems -- Requirements with guidance for use. SCTE’s Energy
2020 Program aligns with the underlying principles of that publication and SCTE
234 2016 serves as the recognition of that international standard as the
official cable industry standard.
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SCTE 237 2017 Implementation Steps for Adaptive
Power Systems Interface Specification (APSIS™)
The
intent of this document is to outline the high-level implementation steps
necessary for cable operators to enable/implement ANSI SCTE 216 2015: Adaptive
Power Systems Interface Specification (APSIS™). Implementation Steps for
Adaptive Power Systems Interface Specification (APSIS) provides the high-level
overview to help identify essential steps necessary and a logical order of
approaching the necessary steps to enable end-to-end energy control.
STANDARD:
SCTE 238 2017 Operational Practice for Measuring
and Baselining Power Consumption in Outside Plant Equipment and Power Supplies
This operational practice covers techniques for
measuring the energy consumption of outside plant (OSP) equipment, including
power supplies, fiber optic nodes, RF amplifiers and other active electronic
devices in the outside plant. This operational practice is to help cable
operators determine the actual energy consumption of current and newer OSP
devices as they are deployed in the field in order to 1) develop energy
monitoring and management practices to improve energy efficiency in the OSP, and
2) to understand where improvements in next generation access network equipment
are needed to achieve further improvements in energy efficiency.
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SCTE 241 2017 Key Performance Metrics: Energy
Efficiency & Functional Density of Wi-Fi Infrastructure Equipment
This document defines how to use a standard
methodology to measure the density of hardware to meet the needs of optimizing
critical space, as well as measuring energy consumption for the various network
element classes. This part of the series focuses on indoor critical facility
Wi-Fi equipment types, Gateway Servers and Wi-Fi Controllers as well as outdoor
strand-mounted Wi-Fi Access Points.
OPERATIONAL PRACTICE:
SCTE 245 2018 Use Cases for Adaptive Power Using APSIS™
The intent of this document is to describe several energy management use cases that may be addressed with the ANSI SCTE 216 2015: Adaptive Power Systems Interface Specification (APSIS™) and SCTE 237 2017: Implementation Steps for Adaptive Power Systems Interface Specification (APSIS).
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SCTE 246 2018 Best Practices in Photovoltaic System Operations and Maintenance for Cable System Operator
This document provides recommended best practices for photovoltaic system operations and maintenance. This guide may not include all operations and maintenance routines or scenarios, but provides general guidance for safety practices, management, operations, and preventative maintenance of PV systems.
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SCTE 253 2019 Cable Technical Facility Climate Optimization, Operational Practice: Understanding Set Point Values, Part 1
This operational practice is intended to educate individuals working in broadband communications critical facilities on what cooling system set points are and how adjusting set points can impact cooling system operational efficiency. The objective is to provide engineers, technicians and contractors a basic understanding of those impacts so set point adjustments will not be done casually but instead be part of the overall goals to optimize the efficiency of the cooling and heating systems without risk of creating conditions which could cause information and communication technology (ICT) equipment to fail. There are significant implications with respect to the operational efficiency of the facility that can result from changing cooling system set points for the wrong reasons. A better understanding of cooling system set points will enable people working in critical facilities to avoid actions that may prove detrimental to the facility operation.