Sustainable cloud telephony works to find the right balance between the communication needs of modern enterprises and the environmental impact of cloud-based communications.
Sustainable telephony reduces the carbon footprint of cloud-based voice solutions to empower companies to use cutting-edge communications tools while reducing their impact on the planet.
Environmental Impact of Cloud Telephony
Cloud telephony services are dependent on data centers, servers, and network equipment to power voice and data services for business users. The cumulative effect of data centers, servers, and network infrastructure powering cloud-based services that process and transmit hundreds of millions of voice calls and petabytes of data every 24/7, as well as conventional data centers powered by fossil fuels, is not trivial.
As organizations scale their cloud-based voice solutions, the carbon emissions that these operations require begin to add up. This makes telephony a non-trivial carbon emitter within the organization and can often lead to incongruence with other green initiatives an organization might otherwise pursue.
Green Data Centers
The foundation of sustainable cloud telephony is based on the green data center infrastructure that these solutions run on. Green data centers are designed to power businesses with low-carbon footprints, drawing their energy from renewable sources, utilizing energy-efficient cooling, and power management systems that dramatically reduce data centers’ carbon footprint.
Advanced green data centers go even further, using techniques to drive greater efficiency at the server level to power workloads with the most power and computing resources required.
Carbon Footprint Tracking & Reporting
Improvements in resource management can also result in operational efficiencies since smarter, more efficient resource management is more capable of intelligently managing any changes in load.
Business Benefits of Sustainable Telephony
Beyond the obvious environmental impact, sustainable cloud telephony offers several compelling benefits for businesses. One of the first and most immediate benefits is a reduction in operating costs achieved through the energy efficiency and improved utilization efficiencies provided by a green infrastructure.
Carbon Footprint
Visibility and reporting on energy usage and carbon footprint are also critical components of sustainable cloud telephony. Built-in carbon tracking is a capability that many cloud-based telephony platforms are now starting to provide as part of the core product to enable enterprises to measure their energy usage and footprint in real-time.
Built-in carbon tracking and usage visibility allow companies to track, manage, and report usage patterns, measure the effectiveness of efficiency initiatives, and provide accurate, transparent reporting on their environmental impact.
Conclusion
Sustainable cloud telephony offers one of the best opportunities to reduce the impact cloud-based enterprise communications have on the environment.
Through the use of green data centers, intelligent resource management, and carbon tracking features, organizations can provide high-quality, scalable, and reliable cloud-based voice services without compromising the global sustainability initiatives in place.
DSNL will guide you through the design, deployment, and benefits of sustainable cloud telephony that will let your business thrive while also helping to protect the environment.
