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Welcome to the Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection Committee (STEP)

Special Notice and Information:

The first meeting of the ATIS STEP Committee took place in April 2010 at the ATIS Annual Meeting of the Committees (AMOC). The STEP Committee will develop standards and technical reports for telecommunications equipment and environments in the areas of energy efficiency, environmental impacts, power and protection. The STEP Committee is composed of four subcommittees: STEP Network Electrical Protection (NEP), STEP Network Physical Protection (NPP), STEP Telecommunications Energy Efficiency (TEE), and STEP Network Power Systems (NPS).

The creation of the STEP Committee was suggested by Committee leaders and accepted by the ATIS Board of Directors in 2009 to improve productivity and efficiency in standards development for tomorrow's converged next generation networks.

2010 contributions for NEP, NPP, TEE, and NPS can be found in the contribution database by searching for STEP NEP, STEP NPP, STEP TEE, and STEP NPS.

 

 
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The Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection (STEP) Committee engages industry expertise to develop standards and technical reports for telecommunications equipment and environments in the areas of energy efficiency, environmental impacts, power and protection. The work products of STEP enable vendors, operators and their customers to deploy and operate reliable, environmentally sustainable, energy efficient communications technologies. STEP is committed to proactive engagement with national, regional and international standards development organizations and forums that share its scope of work.
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The technical requirements, measurement techniques, metrics, and operational practices documented in STEP’s work products encompass:

  • environmental impacts;
  • energy production, storage and distribution systems;
  • energy efficiency, and;
  • electrical and physical protection;
for customer, access, transport and core telecommunications equipment and environments.

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