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Service carbon footprint estimation

This is an estimation of carbon footprint for the service ordered via Evolution Platform. Actual service carbon footprint will be provided later once the service is deployed on production.

Two scenarios are possible: end to end services or Virtual Network Edge (VNE) services.

End to end services​

In that case, the calculation of carbon footprint includes all components needed for the service. The calculation is compliant with Product Category Referencial (PCR) on DC and cloud from ADEME (see Methodological standard for the environmental assessment of Datacenter IT hosting services and cloud services - La librairie ADEME). 

Note that for the moment, the calculation does not include the carbon footprint share of the OSS/BSS components (observability, orchestration, invoicing, ordering, etc…) nor the support activities.

  • Cloud Service Public Connector
    • The calculation includes the resources used on the SuperPoP(s), the backbone network to the Public Cloud, the Gateways on the Public Cloud (example: VPN Gateways instantiated on Azure).
  • SSE Service
    • Calculation includes resources used on SuperPoP(s).
    • At this time, the calculation does not include the carbon footprint of the SSE partner web portal (example: FortiSASE web portal).
  • SD-WAN service
    • Calculation is not yet available.

VNE services​

In that case, the calculation of carbon footprint includes only the VNE component(s)s deployed on the SuperPoP(s).

Knowing SuperPoP carbon footprint and vCPU allocated to each VNE, a share of carbon footprint is calculated based on the total amount of allocated vCPU on the SuperPoPs.

If the VNE is dedicated to a customer, the total amount of carbon footprint is allocated to this customer.

If the VNE is shared among several customer, then there are 2 possibilities regarding the load rate:

1- Deployment of the VNE is less than 1 year, in that case a "design load rate" is used. The carbon footprint allocated to a customer is a share between the customer allocated load rate and the design load rate. 2- Deployment of the VNE is more than 1 year, in that case the carbon footprint allocated to a customer is a share between the customer allocated load rate and the total allocated load rate.

In case the service requires several VNEs (in a same SuperPoP or in different SuperPoP(s)), then the sum of all these VNE carbon footprint is calculated.