Member - Ingetel B E T

In a time when we are looking to digital solutions to regulate our ecological crises, it is more than necessary to take a hard look at the ecological impacts of digital itself. This has been the driving idea behind our R&D for the past 20 years. Without infrastructure there can be no service. This especially true of communications systems in buildings and territories. The physical infrastructure necessary for digital services is overlooked, even though it is responsible for almost half of digital’s energy use and consumes vast quantities of natural resources. The structured cabling deployed in buildings is too rigid to respond to our changing needs in connectivity and ways of working. All too often, cabling within an office is discarded and reinstalled whenever the office space changes hand—most often because the connectivity points just aren’t at the right place. On average, structured cabling is “revised” every 7 years, well before the components and electronics used arrive at the end of their useful lives. This is, simply put, not sustainable. EcoFlex’IT™ is a structured cabling engineering model developed by InGeTel-BET and patented in 2014 that takes into account this problematic. EcoFlex’IT™, patented under the technical name FTTACP for Fiber to the Active Consolidation Point, is a decentralized cabling infrastructure engineering model that brings the active (network) equipment out of the traditional, centralized comm rooms and closer to the points it connects. The area needed for these comm rooms (1% of floor area on average) is reintegrated into the useable floor area of the building. There is no need for air conditioning or other electrical equipment specific to these rooms leading to a great reduction in electricity use caused by this equipment. Because the active equipment, housed in the active consolidation point, is no longer confined to a specific room, the cabling lengths needed to connect terminals is greatly reduced (by 80% on average), generating both economic savings and reducing the materials needed. EcoFlex’IT™ is a modular engineering model, composed of standardized, preconnected copper cables and fiber optic trunks. It is constructed much like Lego, meaning it can also be taken apart, moved, and reinstalled elsewhere thus allowing companies to invest ONCE in their cabling infrastructure instead of investing each time they move offices or remodel their office interior. Additional connection points can be added or moved at will, bringing great flexibility. As the components are all preconnected, the deployment time necessary to install the cabling is also greatly reduced. The modularity, particular to EcoFlex’IT™, opens the possibility of providing the cabling in office buildings as a service, an new economic possibility for real estate managers who can now provide connectivity for a regular monthly fee. Occupants no longer need to carry the burden of heavy investments to set up shop. EcoFlex’IT™ hasn’t reinvented the wheel, but it has made it simpler. The networking equipment is available from all major manufacturers. There is no technological rupture, nothing for the systems administrators to relearn. From an administrative point of view, there is no change. More than 30 POCs covering over 2 million m² in France and internationally, have confirmed and continue to confirm these results.