Sustainability
Tech 2024
Tech 2024
Cisco's holistic approach to environmental sustainability includes how we operate our business, how we engage with suppliers, and how we help customers and communities to reduce their environmental impacts. The process of integrating sustainability across the Cisco product lifecycle starts with circular design, which involves carefully selecting the materials we use and choosing recycled and renewable sources where possible. It also includes making our products more energy efficient, reducing environmental impacts during their manufacturing, and better facilitating repair and remanufacturing.
Cisco WebEx room bar is MTR Certified collaboration endpoints for huddle spaces and small meeting rooms. It was redesigned with a simplified architecture to reduce the number of internal components compared to its predecessor, resulting in over 32,000 pounds of material savings per year.
It uses at least 55 percent post-consumer recycled plastic resin. We have also eliminated the use of foam in the regular box-in-the-box packaging for the Room Bar by using a fiber-based double-tray design instead.
When connected to certain displays, the Room Bar can automatically configure the brightness and latency of the display for natural video conferencing upon installation and turn the display on and off automatically, thereby saving energy.
The Cisco Catalyst 9200 Series switches extend the benefits of intent-based networking and Catalyst 9000 technology to a wider range of deployments, emphasising simplicity, security, and energy efficiency. With features like Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE),they reduce power consumption during periods of low network activity.
In 2019, Cisco's Catalyst 9000 Design and Supply Chain teams eliminated the use of oil-based wet paints in their product design, resulting in the elimination of over 300 metric tons of paint and around 1900 metric tons of CO2e emissions to date. This initiative also reduced approximately 40 metric tons per year of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) associated with oil-based paints.
