Environmental Aspects

The infrastructure and environmental aspects for all telecommunications equipment, including that installed at subscriber premises is under study in ETSI technical committees.
Environmental aspects considered include: 

• climatic and biological conditions
• chemically and mechanically active substances
• mechanical conditions during storage, transportation and while being used
• power supply issues including power distribution, earthing and bonding techniques
• thermal management for equipment and facilities
• noise emission of equipment.

The Technical Committee EE is responsible for defining the environmental and infrastructural aspects for all telecommunication equipment and its environment, including equipment installed in subscriber premises. Where ever possible this will be achieved by references to existing international standards.

The field includes:

• Environmental Conditions
• Power Supply, Bonding and related topics
• Mechanical Structure and Physical design
• Environmental affairs

Energy efficiency is now a key focus of ETSI's Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing Technical Committee (TC ATTM). The TC is defining the general landscape of work required to address the energy consumption of all telecommunications equipment and systems. TC ATTM and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) are working together on broadband implementation in Europe. Energy costs continue to rise, while broadband penetration is introducing new equipment to the network architecture. Energy consumption is therefore a major consideration affecting widespread broadband deployment.

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Wherever possible this will be achieved by references to existing international standards. To this end, the work is carried out in close co-operation with other standards bodies such as ITU-T, CENELEC and the IEC.

TC EE makes a significant contribution to ETSI's Green Agenda. The committee is currently working on:

• a Technical Specification on the energy efficiency of wireless access network equipment;
• an assessment of the environmental impact of ICT including the positive impact by using ICT services and
• a Technical Report on the use of alternative energy sources in telecommunication installations.