ATIS: STEP

Welcome to the Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection Committee (STEP)

Mission:

The Sustainability in Telecom: Energy and Protection (STEP) Committee engages industry expertise to develop standards and technical reports for telecommunications equipment and environments in the areas of energy efficiency, environmental impacts, power and protection. The work products of STEP enable vendors, operators and their customers to deploy and operate reliable, environmentally sustainable, energy efficient communications technologies. STEP is committed to proactive engagement with national, regional and international standards development organizations and forums that share its scope of work.

Contributions for STEP, NEP, NPP, TEE, and NPS can be found in the contribution database by searching for STEP NEP, STEP NPP, STEP TEE, and STEP NPS.

STEP Leadership

Chris Coyle , Intertek
STEP Chair

Ken Biholar, Alcatel-Lucent
STEP Vice Chair

Ernie Gallo, Telcordia
STEP-NEP Chair

Christian Duran, Corning
STEP-NEP Vice Chair

Randy Ivans, UL Inc
STEP-NPP Chair

Clayton Forbes, NTS
STEP-NPP Vice Chair

Vacant
STEP-NPS Chair

Jim Jackson, AT&T
STEP-NPS Vice Chair

John Messina , AT&T
STEP-TEE Chair

Mahmoud Elkenaney, Huawei
STEP-TEE Vice Chair

Scope

The technical requirements, measurement techniques, metrics, and operational practices documented in STEP’s work products encompass:

environmental impacts;
energy production, storage and distribution systems;
energy efficiency, and;
electrical and physical protection;

for customer, access, transport and core telecommunications equipment and environments.