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GreenTouch is a consortium of leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, academic and non-governmental research experts dedicated to fundamentally transforming communications and data networks, including the Internet, and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of ICT devices, platforms and networks.Two factors motivated the formation of GreenTouch in early 2010. First, energy consumption in ICT networks is increasing in part due to exponential network growth, especially with the explosion of wireless data traffic. Network growth is outpacing equipment efficiency, which is slowing as limits to historical capacity and scaling laws loom. This trend could adversely affect the Internet and the broad energy efficiency benefits that ICT networks and associated smart technologies enable. The second motivation is the urgent need to meet the global challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Every industry must play its part and ICT, at the forefront of technology, can be a leader here.To dramatically reduce the energy consumption of today’s ICT networks, a radical new approach was needed. Meeting the challenge depends on collaborative efforts that take advantage of innovation and expertise from around the world. GreenTouch brings together this expertise in a consortium whose members -- leading industry enterprises, entrepreneurs, and researchers from across the ICT community -- work in concert to invent the technologies that can achieve sustainable networks in the decades to come.GreenTouch has also been stimulated by recent research that identifies a gap between rapid network growth rates today and historical equipment efficiency improvements -- a gap that promises to increase over the decades ahead. Technologies in use today, even considering best-case projected energy efficiency improvements, are not expected to be sufficient to check the rate of energy consumption over the long term. At the same time, key technology energy limits associated with existing underlying components of ICT networks (optical, wireless, electronics, routing, architecture, etc.) are still many orders of magnitude below current operating levels.

Poised at the intersection of the network and communications technologies, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) brings together communities of interest across  -- Technology, Government Affairs, Standards, and Business Performance -- to shape solutions, facilitate programs, and provide products and services that enable high-speed networks and accelerate next-generation Information and Communications Technology (ICT) innovation across all markets.With a global membership of more than 400-member companies TIA is at the center of a vibrant ecosystem of companies delivering technologies and services that is revolutionizing the way the world communicates. Our members include ICT manufacturers and suppliers, network operators and service enablers, distributors and system integrators.

Adesto, previously Echelon, is a leading global provider of advanced semiconductors and embedded systems for IoT. Our innovative technologies are used by more than 5,000 customers worldwide who are creating the latest connected solutions across industrial, transportation, consumer, medical and communications markets.

ENEA offers operating system solutions including development tools, network protocols, databases and middleware for connected devices and is the world’s third-largest player in the emerging field of real-time operating systems.Year founded: 1968Revenue: $50 million (2014)STO: ENEA

Cambium Networks, LTD. provides fixed wireless broadband and microwave solutions. It offers point-to-point radio solutions that deliver the speeds to support various bandwidth-intensive solutions, including high-speed residential and business access, streaming video, and VoIP; and point-to-multipoint solutions that enable users to deliver high-speed Internet access, video surveillance, streaming video, voice-over-IP (VoIP), and other in-demand applications to their end users. The company also provides rapid deployment broadband 45350, a rapidly-deployable wireless broadband platform for surveillance and sensor network, wireline network replacement, satellite LAN extension, and temporary encampment broadband applications. In addition, it provides Wireless Manager, a network management software tool, which offers map-based visualization capabilities using embedded Google maps, combined with advanced configuration, provisioning, alerting, and reporting features to enable users to control their outdoor wireless networks, including mesh wide area networks, point-to-multipoint and point-to-point solutions, and other SNMP enabled devices; and an analog telephone adaptor that connects analog telephones to a digital VoIP telephone system. Further, the company offers support services.Year founded: 2011

Transition Networks, Inc. is an industry leader with over 25 years of experience designing fiber integration products that deliver the security and reliability for today’s networks while future proofing for tomorrow. Offering support for multiple protocols, any interface, and a multitude of hardware platforms, including Hardened Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet, CWDM, 1G/10G Ethernet, SFPs, PoE and PoE+, Transition Networks gives you the power to deliver and manage traffic reliably over fiber in any data network – in any application – in any environment. Based in Minneapolis, Transition Networks distributes hardware-based connectivity solutions exclusively through a network of resellers in 50 countries.

Inseego is a global provider of software-as-a-service and solutions for the Internet of Things. It sells its telematics solutions under the Ctrack brand, including its fleet management, asset tracking, and monitoring, stolen vehicle recovery, and usage-based insurance platforms. Inseego also sells business connectivity solutions and device management services through Novatel Wireless, Inc. and Feeney Wireless ("FW").