Enhancing Telecommunications for Sustainable and Efficient Central Offices

Watch a 17-minute conference presentation from the Open Compute Project where Research Associate Sara Mollaeivaneghi from Technical University of Darmstadt explores strategies for optimizing central offices in telecommunications networks. Discover how legacy telecommunications infrastructure can be transformed through data center design principles to address climate change and power grid challenges. Learn about local optimization approaches including HVAC improvements and renewable energy integration, while understanding their economic and environmental implications for energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Through detailed case study analysis, gain insights into both localized and network-wide optimization opportunities that can shape more sustainable telecommunications infrastructure for the future.