NewCom International's Go Green Initiatives were recently spotlighted in an extensive research report on by the World Teleport Association, which is available for free to all WTA members.

The report, titled " Strategies for Sustainabiliity", focuses on programs and technologies that NewCom and two other teleports have adopted to decrease their carbon footprints and become greater and greener leaders in global telecommunications.

"For most teleport operators, the green movement is still in the early adopter stage,” Robert Bell, WTA Executive Director, was quoted as saying in a May 6th article in Satnews Daily. “However, as we heard throughout the Green Teleport Campaign and echoed again during the March Member Forum, these early adopters are moving quickly to implement change and seeing payback in one to two years with all subsequent savings going to their bottom line. The green movement isn’t a fad though. Major customers are asking teleport operators what they are doing to make their operations more sustainable. The majority of companies interviewed also expected to create business opportunities from their green investments. That is a major incentive to push forward with innovative new initiatives.”

NewCom’s green initiative started with upgrading the corporate infrastructure and technology to use significantly less energy, and encouraging employees to contribute to the “going green” campaign by reducing paper output, recycling and decreasing electricity and air conditioning use.  Next, NewCom migrated its operating systems to a virtualized data center, and intensified its use of open software products – greatly reducing power consumption, hardware and licensing costs, and technical support needs.

Along with increased companywide efficiency, lower operations costs and reduced corporate emissions, NewCom’s “going green” initiative prompted the company to begin offering energy efficient, cost-effective add-on services to its traditional satellite service offerings.  One such service is VideoMeetings, a product that gives telecom customers access to state-of-the-art videoconferencing and collaboration tools that cut travel costs and enhance global business capabilities for companies around the globe.