IP & Carbon Neutral Telephony ? Reducing Costs Whilst Cutting Emissions

Success is making the most of all the tools in your kit bag.

Ask procurement managers about their two primary objectives, and more often than not they are value for money and carbon reduction. When they come together, so much the better.

With regard to the public sector, at the end of 2008, the Government launched its Greening Government ICT: Efficient, Sustainable, Responsible strategy, aimed at reducing the environmental impact of their ICT. The strategy has two objectives: to make energy consumption of their ICT systems carbon neutral by 2012, and to make them carbon neutral across their lifetime (including manufacture and disposal) by 2020.

Business has a similar agenda to bolster their bottom line in difficult times as well as comply with their sustainability and corporate responsibility objectives.

In reviewing buying choices and suppliers to reduce carbon footprint to date, telephony hasn't been top of the list. Yet recently The Cabinet Office publishes a number of documents aimed at its ICT procurement departments including recommendations to consider ?VoIP as a replacement for desk-top phones? and ?to review and reduce energy consumption of PBX equipment?.

IP telephony has the opportunity not just to reduce energy consumption but also to radically enable more flexible working. Not only can flexible working increase individual and corporate performance but it is also a significant contributor to carbon reduction with less travel to and from a fixed place of work as people work from home more.

Cost effective and reliable VoIP solutions are now available for every businesses, from large corporations to the one person business.

VoIP does not have to be an all or nothing solution. SIP trunks and IP Extensions to traditional PBX?s are replacing ISDN and copper lines because they allow businesses to add IP functionality without ditching their existing telephony investments.

Call handling and business flexibility are being maximised by the intelligent combination of IP Telephony, Carbon Neutral call minutes and SIP trunks.

Carrier Pre Select (CPS) is now an easy option for the public sector and business for carbon neutral telephony.

CPS is a simple process at the carrier network level to move calls to carbon neutral carriers without having to make changes on customer sites.

Traditional carriers are not currently able to offer carbon neutral telephony because their energy use is too high, it is only the new soft switched carriers with low energy usage. Carbon credits are then used to offset the remaining energy usage.

As your department or business look to achieve it's budget and environmental responsibilities, take a new look at how IP Telephony and Carbon Neutral call minutes can help meet your goals.

On-Communications; For all your business internet, broadband and telephony requirements. Specialists in VoIP, IP and Hosted Voice Services

Comment on "IP & Carbon Neutral Telephony ? Reducing Costs Whilst Cutting Emissions"


	Clean Development

	Home - Site Map - IP & Carbon Neutral Telephony ? Reducing Costs Whilst Cutting Emissions Copyright (c) 2010 Ian Roberts Success is making the most of all the tools in your kit bag. Ask procurement managers about their two primary objectives, and more often than not they are value for money and carbon reduction. When they come together, so much the better. With regard to the public sector, at the end of 2008, the Government launched its Greening Government ICT: Efficient, Sustainable, Responsible strategy, aimed at reducing the environmental impact of their ICT. The strategy has two objectives: to make energy consumption of their ICT systems carbon neutral by 2012, and to make them carbon neutral across their lifetime (including manufacture and disposal) by 2020. Business has a similar agenda to bolster their bottom line in difficult times as well as comply with their sustainability and corporate responsibility objectives. In reviewing buying choices and suppliers to reduce carbon footprint to date, telephony hasn't been top of the list. Yet recently The Cabinet Office publishes a number of documents aimed at its ICT procurement departments including recommendations to consider ?VoIP as a replacement for desk-top phones? and ?to review and reduce energy consumption of PBX equipment?. IP telephony has the opportunity not just to reduce energy consumption but also to radically enable more flexible working. Not only can flexible working increase individual and corporate performance but it is also a significant contributor to carbon reduction with less travel to and from a fixed place of work as people work from home more. Cost effective and reliable VoIP solutions are now available for every businesses, from large corporations to the one person business. VoIP does not have to be an all or nothing solution. SIP trunks and IP Extensions to traditional PBX?s are replacing ISDN and copper lines because they allow businesses to add IP functionality without ditching their existing telephony investments. Call handling and business flexibility are being maximised by the intelligent combination of IP Telephony, Carbon Neutral call minutes and SIP trunks. Carrier Pre Select (CPS) is now an easy option for the public sector and business for carbon neutral telephony. CPS is a simple process at the carrier network level to move calls to carbon neutral carriers without having to make changes on customer sites. Traditional carriers are not currently able to offer carbon neutral telephony because their energy use is too high, it is only the new soft switched carriers with low energy usage. Carbon credits are then used to offset the remaining energy usage. As your department or business look to achieve it's budget and environmental responsibilities, take a new look at how IP Telephony and Carbon Neutral call minutes can help meet your goals. On-Communications; For all your business internet, broadband and telephony requirements. Specialists in VoIP, IP and Hosted Voice Services Rate This Article: Comment on "IP & Carbon Neutral Telephony ? Reducing Costs Whilst Cutting Emissions" Your Name Your Comments Verification Code: URPDFD Enter Code:		What Affects Our Carbon Footprint? Your carbon footprint is a measure of how much greenhouse gases you are creating by your activities; for working purposes carbon dioxide is the gas which is measured, however there are other gases and emissions which are created too, it is just that carbon dioxide levels are the most practical variable to focus on Beer Gifts – give something different with organic and carbon neutral beer gifts We all have someone who we find especially difficult to buy for. They either have everything, you have no idea what they could possibly want or they are really, really fussy and buying for them is just too hard. If you have someone like this on your gift list and they love beer (and let's face it, most people are at least a little bit partial to a nice cold beer), then a beer gift may be just the answer. If there is a reason to celebrate or just to say thanks, a beer gift makes a great gift for almost any occasion. Reduce Carbon Footprint by Decreasing the Amount of CO2 In a stroke of sheer brilliance, Null Hypothesis, the journal ofunlikely science, weird science has cracked Richard Branson's climate change earth challenge to reduce the carbon footprint. Less than a month into Richard Branson's five-year Virgin Earth competition, Null Hypothesis will take its winning idea for reducing the carbon footprint to Virgin Earth and walk away with a cool $25 million. Perdue Publishes Environmental Stewardship Information Environmental Steering Committee, Vice President of Environmental Sustainability position and first Environmental Stewardship brochure among key environmental activities. Carbon Footprint Analysis Gives Turman Commercial Painters Edge as "Greenest" Paint Contractor National commercial painting contractor Turman Commercial Painters, raises bar as industry sustainability leader with completion of a carbon footprint analysis. See what other actions this company has taken to claim "greenest" leadership status in the industry. Pollution is Everyone's Problem The world is slowly realizing that we need to go green, but going totally green is going to be a long uphill battle There are still people who think that if they don't litter, that's all they need to do to prevent pollution Subscribe to our Monthly Email Newsletter