Helping Customers Improve their Footprint

Wireless technologies offer opportunities for our customers to reduce their own environmental footprint. From consuming less power and requiring less equipment for network deployments; to enabling anywhere, anytime network connectivity to enhance communication, interactivity and collaboration for students, faculty, administrative leadership and staff.

Motorola products are built to last, with products still in use after nearly a decade of deployment and reliably achieving more than one billion field hours of operation. However, when upgrades or expansions are necessary, advanced network planning tools ensure only the network equipment needed is deployed, resulting in less waste.

Our software versions also enable customers to upgrade their systems functionality and capacity without replacing equipment thereby extending the product’s useful life.

Unwired Environmental Opportunities

The flexibility, rapid implementation, reliability and scalability of wireless networks make them ideal choices for customers deploying a vast array of green IT strategies.

Not only can they be installed quickly at a fraction of the cost of traditional wired networks, they provide a higher throughput alter¬native to leased land lines with no recurring cost.

Wireless also improves adminis¬trative productivity and reduces costs by enabling advanced applications such as online class registration, electronic grading, data collection, access to student transcripts, billing procedures and much more. For example, professors and staff can watch in-service speakers on a video portal, saving time, fuel costs, and carbon emissions associated with driving miles away. Classroom lectures can also be recorded or delivered live extending instruction to students in any location.

Colleges and universities are also using wireless to save energy costs. One Midwest university is expanding their wireless network to control heating, ventilation, air conditioning and lighting.

Our Products and the Environment

We are reducing the impact of our packaging. We are increasing the recyclability of our products. And we are dedicated to going well beyond minimum standards for regulatory compliance. We manufacture products with reduced environmental impacts by using preferred materials, as well as increasing their energy efficiency while in operation and in stand-by mode. Wireless reduces cabling at access and distribution layers, saving on power consumption. In fact, solar-powered options are now available for many of our broadband solutions.

Other environmental commitments and achievements include:

• Designing for rugged performance, low-power consumption and reduced operating costs by removing heating and cooling elements that are a point of failure and are energy intensive
• Researching alternatives to polyvinyl chloride (PVC) materials and phthalates, as well as brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and have begun removing them from some new parts.
• Designing over-the-air (OTA) firmware updates into our wireless solutions, extending the life of deployed equipment as well as reducing downtime and costs.
• Offering high power radios and industry leading Tx Power and Rx sensitivity requiring fewer nodes per square mile. This allows mobile workers, as well as consumers, to access Wi-Fi connectivity anywhere, increasing productivity and reducing the carbon footprint with less time spent traveling to and from the office.
• Shipping products in biodegradable cardboard boxes and supporting documentation online, reducing paper consumption.
• Reprogramming and diagnosing radios remotely, minimizing the need for technicians to travel, reducing emissions and saving fuel.

We are also making our two-way radio chargers more energy efficient – our IMPRES chargers have technology that avoids overcharging and many of our ASTRO and PCR chargers have been upgraded to use a more efficient external power supply that consumes 40 percent less energy in standby mode than required by the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

In accordance with European regulatory requirements, our wireless broadband portfolio is RoHS environmentally compliant and free from hazardous materials such as lead.

Motorola Takes Top Honors

Motorola’s wireless portfolio offers CIOs and IT managers a broad range of innovative technologies to help achieve their environmental goals. In fact, Motorola was named as the greenest provider of wireless local area network (WLAN) equipment in a 2008 study by ABI Research. The report highlighted several green features:

• Software enhancements boost battery life and manage battery power requirements.
• Energy-efficient power supplies that meet Level 4 ENERGY STAR requirements and also meet the stringent California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) energy efficiency requirements introduced in 2008.
• Long-lasting equipment and software upgrades reduce waste and the use of raw materials to make new equipment.
• Remote control capability avoids the need for separate controllers in multiple locations, reducing materials use and improving operational efficiency.

Our Environmental Journey

We understand that the effort to address global environmental challenges is a journey, not a race. Motorola has been on this journey for quite some time now and has achieved some significant successes. Over the last few years, Motorola’s environmental efforts have been recognized as best-in-class by a number of respected industry monitoring groups.

• In 2008-09, we were selected as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes for the fifth straight year.
• In 2009, we were included on the 100 Best Corporate Citizens list by Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine for the ninth year, ranking No. 5 in the environment category.
• Climate Counts, a non-profit organization that helps consumers by providing scorecards that rate companies’ efforts to tackle climate change, rated our efforts at the highest category, “striding.”

We have also received environment, health and safety awards and recognition from numerous countries around the world, including the United States, Mexico, Germany, Japan, China, Israel and Brazil.

We are continually working to improve energy efficiency in all of our operations, and we’ve been quite successful. Since 2005, we have reduced our carbon footprint by 20 percent through a combination of implementing energy-saving measures, purchasing renewable energy and consolidating facilities.

• Currently, about 15 percent of our global electricity comes from renewable resources. Our goal is to increase our global purchase of electricity from renewable sources to 20 percent by 2010 and to 30 percent by 2020.
• In 2009, we were named a Green Power Leader by the U.S. EPA’s Green Power Partnership for purchasing 20 percent of our U.S. electricity from wind power.
• In northern Illinois where Motorola is headquartered, 40 percent of our electricity is from renewable energy.
• In 2008, we launched an initiative to reduce environmental impact in our freight packaging by packing more products per case, double stacking pallets and using lighter cardboard boxes versus wood crates.

As we look forward to the next 80 years, we believe that our commitment to innovation, integrity and environmental protection will help sustain us.

To learn more about Motorola’s solutions give us a call at 1-800-367-2346 or visit our web site at www.motorola.com/education