The state of energy today: What every operator must know. Andrew Solutions

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1 The state of energy today: What every operator must know. Andrew Solutions

2 The state of energy today What every operator must know. As mobile operators seek new ways to meet the ever-increasing need for bandwidth today and in the future, they face many challenges: evolving technology and new applications; the growth of connected devices, predicted to reach 50 billion by 2020; and an insatiable demand for mobile video, just to name a few. All of this requires more bandwidth, which, in turn, requires more energy as well as steep investments in network infrastructure money that service providers must find a way to recoup. The energy required to fuel this bandwidth brings its own inherent challenges: energy grids that grow less reliable every year; energy costs that escalate annually; and energy demands that are quickly outgrowing supplies. It could all add up to an energy and financial crisis. What the Future Holds: More Energy Challenges Ahead for Mobile Operators. Overall energy demands continue to rise Increasingly stringent emissions standards Escalating fossil fuel costs Difficulty securing permits to bring diesel generators into communities Lower cost and higher availability of hydrogen contrasted with the increasing cost of diesel fuel Continued consumer pressure for CO 2 emission reductions and greater corporate responsibility IEA 450 program suggests aggressive emission reduction efforts globally Or it could be one of the biggest opportunities for your network in years. 2

3 20 25% Average energy consumption reductions wireless operators hope to achieve over the next 5-10 years. Energy conservation solutions: Moving beyond energy crisis into energy and OpEx savings. Many of our customers are focusing on reducing energy consumption in their networks. The key to achieving this goal is simple: increase energy efficiency and reduce energy spend. Yet it s easier said than done without the right insight, knowledge and strategic planning. How CommScope can help. REDUCE ENERGY SPEND Energy is a big, multi-faceted line item in every wireless operator s budget so big and complex that it s often difficult to know where to start. CommScope helps you identify and implement the right energy-saving and energy-efficient solutions for your networks so you can achieve your energy conservation goals and overcome your network infrastructure challenges. Our solutions also help you reduce OpEx and often CapEx while reducing environmental impact. As a trusted advisor for networks around the world, we help you see the long-term, global view of energy solutions from every communication network perspective broadband, enterprise and wireless. This gives you the insight to invest in the right technology today that grows with your network well into the future. INCREASE ENERGY EFFICIENCY 3

4 Top 10 ways to reduce energy costs and help future-proof your networks. Our energy experts have identified 10 of the most critical ways you can achieve longlasting energy efficiency and realize more savings in your energy budget. CommScope Energy Site Solutions Shelter free-air cooling Hybrid cooling technology High-efficiency rectifier partners Fuel cell backup power technology Remote radio heads with hybrid remote fiber feeder cable Remote site monitoring and control More efficient packaging and lighter cables PIM management Load balancing and beam shaping Signal power amplification 1. Reduce the power consumption associated with cooling shelter systems. There are two simple ways to reduce power consumption in this area of your network: supplementing air conditioners for shelters with free-air cooling solutions and hybrid cooling techniques for outside plant enclosures. Free-air cooling solutions shorten the length of time an air conditioner must run to cool equipment while still operating in safe equipment temperature ranges. This can help reduce the overall power consumption required to run your cell site by as much as 25%. The CommScope design perspective: Combining innovation and energy conservation. At CommScope, our design approach is simple: find new, innovative ways to help our customers do more with less. For example, field trials and early deployments of our free-air cooling solutions demonstrate reductions of as much as 75% of the cooling costs. With two-fan and four-fan sizes, our freeair cooling system gives you flexibility for shelter size variances. And you can choose the filter specification and filter rating that meet your air quality standards: MERV-11 filter: The telecom standard for shelter air cooling, this filter is 65% efficient for particulate sizes of 1.0 to 3.0 microns. MERV-14 filter: This filter is 80% efficient for particulate sizes of 0.3 to 1.0 microns. MERV-16 filter: At 95% efficient for a particulate size of 0.3 microns, this filter would stop smoke particulates and prevent a smoke detector from being triggered. It also meets the GR-487 air quality standard to resist salt-fog. Worry-free installation. Guaranteed performance. Installation and maintenance are simple with our full installation services, which include: site audits, civil works, installation, training, commissioning and startup; and advanced monitoring, control and reporting. We also guarantee performance of our installations that s better for your network and your peace of mind. 75% Potential cost savings using CommScope s hybrid cooling solutions instead of traditional air conditioning for shelters and equipment enclosures. 4

5 2. Reduce power consumption associated with cooling power and battery backup enclosures. Our research shows that operators can save as much as $2,000 per site, per year by simply using more energy-efficient power and battery backup solutions with hybrid cooling technology for enclosure cooling while also reducing emissions. CommScope has extensive expertise with designing and engineering innovative hybrid cooling zones for enclosures that meet your equipment s requirements. Our integrated power and battery backup solutions utilize hybrid cooling combinations of free-air, heat exchangers and thermal electric coolers that help optimize zones within the enclosure. This helps protect your equipment and minimize the thermal cycling of batteries, while lowering your overall energy consumption. $2,000 Potential savings per cell site by using more energyefficient power and battery backup solutions. 5

6 3. Find a more efficient conversion from AC to DC power. High-efficiency rectifiers improve efficiency of AC to DC conversion from 89% to greater than 94% resulting in energy cost savings as much as $1,500 per site, per year. 94%=$1,500 The percentage of efficiency you can realize by using high-efficiency rectifiers for AC to DC conversion and how much money you could save per site. In addition to hybrid cooling of enclosures to reduce energy consumption, CommScope integrates the latest generation of power rectifiers in our power and battery backup solutions to help you realize lower energy consumption and greater cost savings. 4. Identify, replace or upgrade inefficient, energy-wasting, CO 2 - emitting backup power equipment. Now that we all better understand the true impact of energy-wasting equipment, many operators are looking for ways to build energy efficiency into their network at every stage of design and implementation. For example, operators are reducing CO 2 emissions by using hydrogen fuel cells for backup power instead of batteries and diesel generators which also helps reduce power consumption by eliminating trickle charging required to keep batteries charged. Fuel cell backup power CommScope fuel cell backup power solutions were designed specifically for telecom applications and work with our sophisticated hybrid cooling techniques. With 5KW, 8KW, 10KW and 16KW versions of our fuel cell, you can easily optimize and match our solutions to meet the backup requirements of your cell site. Our fuel cell solutions allow you to: 6 Meet the most stringent environmental standards for outdoor enclosures and protect your electronic equipment from the outside environment through the use of closed-loop cooling techniques. Fully integrate your primary power and any necessary electronic equipment before being shipped to a cell site reducing your site construction costs and time to startup. Lower overall maintenance costs and increase flexibility in scheduling and shipping of fuel cells to cell sites since there are no monthly fuel cell hydration cycles. Reduce maintenance when compared to competing technologies almost eliminating maintenance labor and costs associated with maintaining traditional backup power solutions. Use less real estate resulting in lower site leasing expenses with our fuel cells industry-leading power density.

7 5. Upgrade inefficient, energywasting equipment and network designs. You might be surprised to learn that one of the largest energy-consuming resources on a cell site is the power amplification unit of the radio system. While power amplification is necessary to overcome RF losses as signals are transmitted to the top of the tower, the associated energy consumption is costly and avoidable. Today, new base station architectures using remote radio heads and hybrid remote fiber feeder cables can significantly reduce the total power load of a cell site as much as 33% in deployments implemented by CommScope. Up to 70% How much faster your cell site installation could go using remote radio heads and our high-performance hybrid remote fiber feeder cable. Our research shows that customers who deploy CommScope s remote radio heads with our highperformance hybrid remote fiber feeder cable significantly reduce their energy consumption and realize additional savings, too: The true cost of CO 2 on our planet and ourselves In India, where the power grid is unreliable, a large operator using 1,000,000 liters of diesel fuel per day to back up a cell site power grid for one year is equivalent to: Annual greenhouse gas emissions from 1,750 passenger vehicles CO 2 emissions from 20,675 barrels of oil consumed CO 2 emissions from the electricity use of 1,100 homes for one year Carbon sequestered by 228,000 tree seedlings grown for 10 years CO 2 emissions from 370,000 propane cylinders used for home barbeques Greenhouse gas emissions avoided by recycling 3,100 tons of waste instead of sending it to the landfill Reduce cable costs up to 40-50%. One RFF cable per sector can save up to 40-50% of the cable cost per installation compared to typical 6-runs of transmission line. Reduce tower loading by up to 40%. This helps you free up capacity for more antennas. Reduce installation time by as much as 60-70%. Installation can be performed faster and more easily with routing in the enclosure and on the tower. Reduce long-term CapEx/OpEx. Future-proof your technology with built-in potential to expand your network if and when you need it. 7

8 6. Reduce truck rolls and associated labor costs. Spending money on truck rolls and labor for site visits doesn t make sense for the bottom line or the environment. Today, operators are increasingly turning to advanced monitoring and control to perform repairs and maintenance right from the office saving money on fuel costs and reducing CO 2 emissions. CommScope provides advanced technology such as OneBase InSite Connect, which allows operators to monitor battery strength, manage BTS building temperatures, decrease diesel fuel losses and reduce truck rolls. Implementing OneBase InSite Connect also further reduces power consumption by monitoring site conditions and providing remote alerts when alarms and operating conditions are out of normal range. 7. Lower energy consumption associated with shipping and handling. 20,000 TREES Number of trees saved in 2010 using our ReelSmart cable reel recycling program. $3,500 PER SITE, PER YEAR AVERAGE SAVINGS ON ENERGY-RELATED CELL SITE TECHNICIAN VISITS THROUGH IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMSCOPE S ONEBASE INSITE CONNECT REMOTE MONITORING AND CONTROL. In addition, when CommScope s advanced monitoring and control system is used for shelter cooling, the same control system can be used to allow for remote RET control, site video surveillance, diesel fuel monitoring, site troubleshooting, and reduced site visits for false alarms. This capability can help you solve other cell site challenges through intelligent remote site management. One way to reduce energy consumption that is often overlooked in our industry: shipping costs. When solution providers reduce packing density and design products to be smaller and lighter with the same high performance as larger-size products we can all work together to reduce energy consumption and CO 2 emissions associated with shipping. CommScope helps our customers reduce shipping costs and subsequent CO 2 emissions in a number of innovative ways: Operators can save up to 40% of the space required to ship antennas with our innovative microwave antenna packaging, significantly reducing the energy consumption per antenna shipped. Our HELIAX FXL smooth-walled aluminum cable is designed to be 20% lighter than traditional corrugated copper cable resulting in lower shipping costs and lower greenhouse gas emissions, as less energy is required to ship the cable to cell sites. Our award-winning ReelSmart cable reel recycling program saved the equivalent of 20,000 trees in

9 8. Effectively manage PIM. In the past, when operators needed capacity, they simply built more cell sites or added more equipment to their current sites. Today, this approach is inefficient and unpractical: tower space is limited; adding new cell sites is costly; and the CapEx and OpEx investments can t be justified on limited budgets. One solution: Find new, more effective ways to increase capacity. Passive Inter-modulation (PIM) noise is one of the biggest contributors to poor cell site capacity making PIM management a top priority for wireless operators. When you can improve PIM, you improve data throughput, and this, in turn, helps improve capacity and conserve energy. Furthermore, if you can improve the capacity of your current cell site, you can reduce energy costs by eliminating the need for additional towers and radios. At CommScope, we work with our customers to help them minimize the impact of PIM and improve the capacity of their cell sites. Recently, PIM audits and optimizations resulted in one customer improving throughput by as much as 6X eliminating the need for, and cost of, adding more radios or cell sites. 9. Manage and control antenna tilt and beam patterns on a cell site based on traffic loads. Traditionally, when operators needed to increase coverage and capacity, they would install additional towers and radios. Today it s more critical than ever for operators to make better use of existing resources to do more with what they already have. This requires investing in intelligent solutions that are also more energy efficient. SmartBeam: Maximize system capacity quickly, easily and intelligently. Managing the tilt and beam patterns on a cell site to optimize coverage and capacity results in significantly less power consumption when compared to installing additional towers and radios. SmartBeam Antenna Systems from CommScope enable you to continually sense and re-distribute traffic evenly across all sectors, so you can make better use of the existing resources. SmartBeam is an innovative technology that helps you: Maximize system capacity by rotating the site, narrowing the beam of overloaded cells and widening the beam of under-utilized cells. Eliminate the cost to manually optimize systems with the ability to remotely optimize Azimuth direction and beam width. Load-balance uneven traffic distribution, reducing the need for additional towers and radios. 10. Amplify power more efficiently when adding carriers and new technology to a cell site. When upgrading a cell site, traditional methods of power amplification are not typically energy efficient which can increase energy costs exponentially. Using low-energy-loss power cable and more efficient power amplifiers, such as MCPAs from CommScope, can help reduce your overall cell site power load by as much as 20 to 30% % How much you can reduce your overall cell site power load using low-energyloss power cable and more efficient power amplifiers. PER 3-SECTOR $1,000 SITE, PER YEAR Savings that can be gained from reduced power consumption using load balancing. 9

10 Case in Point How energy-efficient solutions could save you up to $500,000 annually* The energy line item of your budget is big and a huge drain on your profitability. Now imagine if you could reduce that number by nearly half. Here at CommScope, we re helping operators explore innovative energy solutions that deliver significant reductions as much as 40% of their energy costs. Here s how: Cost-effective hydrogen fuel cells that are more reliable and less costly to maintain than diesel generators. Innovative free-air cooling systems that reduce or eliminate reliance on costly air conditioning. Efficient multicarrier power amplifiers that use only half the power of the technology you use today. Powerful remote monitoring and control that provides real-time intelligence and insight on your energy usage so you can optimize site operations. Up to $500,000 How much a wireless operator can save annually by reducing energy costs by nearly twothirds at 100 cell sites. * Savings of $5,000 annually per site, based on energy conservation solutions listed in this brochure 10

11 Power your energy efficiency goals and your bottom line with a new way of thinking and saving. Start reducing your energy costs with a new way of thinking about powering your cell sites. CommScope gives you the perspective and expertise you need to see your energy budget in a whole new energy-efficient light. For more information about how our energy solutions can help you, please visit www. commscope.com or contact your local CommScope representative today. 11

12 Looking for the Andrew flash? We re proud to be a part of your network s story. Here at CommScope, we embrace our role as a trusted resource, partner, and facilitator. We create the infrastructure that connects the world and evolves with every advance in technology. By investing all of our capabilities, resources, relationships, and products into your toughest challenges, we continue our long history of solving problems together paving the way for new ideas and fresh ways of thinking. We re a trusted resource and partner around the world because we re invested in you: your people, your networks, your success. It inspires us to build relationships and infrastructure connect people and technologies across protocols, oceans, and time zones and share what we learn along the way. We ll never stop connecting and evolving networks for the business of life at home, at work, and on the go. This is our promise to you. This is CommScope. As a valued Andrew Solutions customer, we d like to thank you for your loyalty and business. As we celebrate 75 years of the Andrew brand, we realized that many customers have come to see the Andrew flash logo as synonymous with our long history of high-quality wireless solutions, dedicated service, and industry-leading innovation. 75 YEARS The Andrew flash logo has changed. Our commitment to you is as strong as ever. Over the years, our logo has evolved, just as our portfolio has evolved to better meet your network needs. As you may know, Andrew Solutions was acquired by CommScope in While CommScope serves many customers across multiple geographies and markets, some customers didn t realize the full breadth of our solutions. We soon realized that to tell a more unified story about who we are and what we do, we would need to better integrate the Andrew portfolio of wireless solutions into the CommScope brand. So while you may no longer see the Andrew flash and colors on our letters, statements or products, you can still rely on the same strong tradition of Andrew quality, service and innovation you ve come to expect only now under the CommScope name and our new dynamic logo Visit our Web site or contact your local CommScope representative for more information CommScope, Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks identified by or are registered trademarks or trademarks, respectively, of CommScope, Inc. This document is for planning purposes only and is not intended to modify or supplement any specifications or warranties relating to CommScope products or services. All products and services sold by CommScope are subject to its standard warranty terms and conditions unless contractural agreements exist. BR EN (2/12)