Chalk up another dimension – award-winning Sustainability that can slash CO2 emissions by 50% – to OpenVault’s new Vantage solution.
While Vantage has turned heads for its ability to meet key industry needs – Proactive Network Maintenance with Alarming, Profile Management Application, and Congestion Management – its benefits go above and beyond network performance and customer satisfaction.
When our team accepted an award from the Society of Broadband Professionals (thescte.eu) last week in London, it turned the spotlight on capabilities that are too important to fall under the radar: the value of Vantage’s PNM component in reducing energy consumption and fleet emissions and it ability to increase fuel efficiency.
We all know that network issues chew up operational expenses and leave subscribers feeling dissatisfied. But in today’s climate-conscious world its essential that we remember that the effects of network trouble spots are compounded by the environmental cost of identification and troubleshooting.
Vantage’s OV PNM component zeroes in on network impairments, giving operators’ workforces a head start in addressing issues. The resulting improvements to the network network and the workforce drive down CO2 emissions by optimizing network efficiency, minimizing truck rolls, maximizing fuel efficiency, and reducing network downtime.
What we’ve seen in real world OV PNM deployments has been an 80% reduction in immediate action modems, a 15% reduction in critical/red modems and a 25% reduction in cable modem issues. Here’s how that translates into environmental improvements for the communities our industry serves:
Based on a conservative scenario, Vantage PNM can reduce CO2 by nearly 250 pounds for every 10 truck rolls currently dispatched. We can’t speak for the Society of Broadband Professionals’ awards judges, but we’d like to think that what earned us the runner-up prize was our assumptions that trucks getting eight miles per gallon are consuming 25 gallons of gas for every 200 miles driven. At 19.6 pounds per gallon, that’s 490 pounds of CO2.
What we think the judges liked was how Vantage PNM’s ability to remotely pinpoint the nature and location of network problems has been proven to cut truck rolls in half. Five trips – instead of 10 – at 20 miles each on average halves CO2 production to 245 pounds, in addition to significantly reducing fuel, equipment and manpower expenses.
Operators have told us that they love Vantage for its use of AI, machine learning and complex algorithms that are dynamically helping the industry up its network performance and quality of experience game. But I have to say it feels equally good to be honored publicly for helping the industry significantly reduce its environmental footprint. We’re grateful to the SCTE UK team for its recognition of Vantage PNM’s Sustainability contributions, and look forward to continuing to support our customers’ climate initiatives – as well as their bottom lines.