Visual Communications for a Sustainable Future
York Telecom’s visual communication services and solutions can help your organization in many ways. We have always known that technologies such as Videoconferencing, Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and Rich Media Streaming are effective alternatives to travel, cutting down costs and time spent on the road. Now we know that cutting down on travel can also help reduce fossil fuel emissions while making your organization more energy-efficient.
Here are the ways we can help you reduce your energy use:
• High-Definition solutions such as the Collaborative Operating Room Environment (CORE) and Intelli-Presence allow you to conference with greater realism, limiting the need for travel.
• The ability to archive conferences is also a critical way to reduce travel, by helping users learn from multiple locations, on demand.
•Visual communications solutions also support the GSATelework initiative, allowing greater flexibility and communication practices among US government organizations, as well as private enterprise. One benefit of Telework is a reduction in daily commutes, one of the largest manmade sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
•York Telecom uses conferencing and data-collaboration technologies in our day-to-day business practices, such as videoconferencing, audio teleconferencing, data-sharing, streaming, and VPN.
• Our communications initiatives support our various offices around the US, as well as our field service technicians, who can provide rapid support for our clients and reduce travel by being on-site or locally-based.
• Infrastructure and components for visual communications and control systems can also help architects adhere to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification requirements. LEED is an important trend in commercial and residential building, and York Telecom’s engineers can help maximize a system’s energy efficiency by reducing heat load, and by selecting LEED-certified materials for communications infrastructure.
Partnerships and Practices
Going beyond York Telecom’s commitment to providing visual communications solutions and services that can help you reduce reliance on travel, we also enjoy partnerships with manufacturers that have developed environmentally-sustainable programs. Many of our partners have developed greener methods of manufacturing their products, meeting either the ISO 14000 certification, the Electronic Product Environment Assessment Tool (EPEAT) Standard, the European Union’s Directives. EU Directives include the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS), which addresses restrictions on heavy metals and chemicals in the manufacture of electronic products, and the EU Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), which requires producers to arrange for collection and recycling.
York Telecom also takes part in programs in its Eatontown, NJ headquarters such as paper recycling, bottle recycling, and the use of CFL bulbs in each office.
York Telecom has been on the forefront of visual communications technology for more than two decades, and has helped numerous organizations reduce their travel requirements, whether across the campus, or across the enterprise.
For more information, visit York Telecom on the web at www.yorktel.com or call 866.836.8463.