1. Laboratory for Multimedia Communication in Telepresence GreenStar Network (GSN) September 1 st, 2011 Launch of the Chinese GreenStar Node Mohamed Cheriet, GSN Project Lead École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Québec, Canada

2. 2 ICT Energy & Environment Climate Change is not reversible Urgent need to develop low carbon solutions ICT is a major consumer of power (8% in the US) and CO 2 production which is growing at 6% per year The problem requires not only Energy Efficiency BUT also GHG Reduction using Renewable resources The Goal is to provide ICT Services with renewable energies ICT sector can be a leader in GHG reduction

3. 3 Infrastructure Resources GHG Measurement Engine (ISO 14064) Infrastructure Metrics Aggregation Compute Resource 1 M Compute Resource n M Network Resource 1 M Network Resource n M Sensor Resource 1 M Sensor Resource n M Decision Engine Data Centre n Metrics (M) Compute Cluster Network Equipment Instruments, Sensors GSN Green IT Pilot Goals: (i) Distributed Cloud Software (ii) Follow the Sun/Wind Energy (iii) Carbon protocol, GeoChronos relocation GreenStar Network Central Hub Hydro-powered node Spokes Sun or Wind powered nodes The GreenStar Network Solution World’s First Zero Carbon Internet & Cloud

4. 4 The GreenStar Network Connection plan

5. 5 GV-AGM Live demonstration Simulation on global scale Simulation.mp4Simulation.mp4

6. 6 How Real Reductions will be Achieved Carbon Protocol

7. 7 Academia Not-for-Profit Corporations Industry Government International Partners iDeal inc. SIGMACO USA Belgium SpainChinaIreland The GreenStar Network Partners

8. 8 http://www.greenstarnetwork.com Contact : Prof. Mohamed Cheriet, Eng., Ph.D., SMIEEE Director / Synchromedia Consortium Website: http://www.synchromedia.ca/ Thank you ! ©Synchromedia 2011