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Saving Energy

Code of Conduct

To prove its commitment to protect the environment, Technicolor has signed the Code of Conduct, a global agreement to

reduce the power consumption of broadband access devices.

For more information, see

“6.1 Code of Conduct” on page 46

.

Technicolor power saving innovations

To further reduce the power consumption, Technicolor has developed the

ECO Manager

. This system constantly monitors

the services provided by the Technicolor Gateway and automatically switches unused services to an ECO-friendly state. For

more information, see

“6.2 ECO Manager” on page 47

.

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Code of Conduct

Power states

Code of Conduct provides rules for the power consumption in:



Full power state:

This is the normal operation mode of the device, where all functionality is enabled.



Low power state:

When there is no user traffic on the device, the device should switch to low power mode. This is a state in which devices

are only allowed to use a limited amount of energy to be able to power its components and respond to user activity.

Example

Take the following example:



The user switches off his computer at 20:00.



There are no other devices connected to the Technicolor Gateway.

The Technicolor Gateway switches to low power mode. This results in a considerable drop in the overall power consumption

of the Technicolor Gateway.

No user traffic

User traffic

Time

Power

Consumption

Full power limit

Low power limit

20:00

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ECO Manager

Introduction

The Technicolor Gateway constantly monitors the user activity and uses this information to optimise the power

consumption:

For example:



The Technicolor Gateway

reduces the clock frequency of the central processor

when there is no or low user activity. This

lowered clock frequency will result in a lower power consumption of the Technicolor Gateway.



Switch the wireless interface to power reduction mode

.

Wireless access point power reduction mode

When the Technicolor Gateway access point switches to power reduction mode, the access point is switched off and is only

power on periodically to be able to detect new clients. If new clients are detected the wireless access point is fully powered

again. This is only possible if there are no devices connected to the Technicolor Gateway.

Power reduction is enabled by default, but it is possible to disable it via the Technicolor Gateway GUI. To configure power

reduction:

1

Browse to the Technicolor Gateway GUI.

For more information, see

“Accessing the Technicolor Gateway GUI” on page 33

.

2

Under

Home Network

, click

Wireless

.

3

In the

Navigation bar

, click

Configure

.

4

Under

Configuration

:



Select

Power Reduction Enabled

to enable power reduction.



Clear

Power Reduction Enabled

to disable power reduction.

5

Click

Apply

.

Example

If we use the same example as in the previous section, you can see that the Technicolor Gateway is now able to further

reduce the power consumption in periods where less action is required from the Technicolor Gateway.

ECO button

If you are not using the wireless access point of your Technicolor Gateway, you might consider to disable the wireless access

point permanently. This allows you to further reduce the power consumption.

To turn the wireless interface:



Off

, press the

ECO

(

) button until the

ECO

LED turns blue or the Wireless LED is off.

No User Traffic

User Traffic

Time

20:00

Time

Power

Consumption

Full power limit

Low power limit

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

On

, press the

ECO

(

) button until the

ECO

LED turns green or the Wireless LED is on.

Zero power consumption

If you will not be using your Technicolor Gateway for a longer time (for example: you are going on holiday), you should

consider to turn off the Technicolor Gateway. This way no energy will be consumed at all.

However, be aware that if you turn off the Technicolor Gateway,

all services provided by the Technicolor Gateway that

require access to the Internet will not be available

. For example:



You will not be able to browse to Internet websites, listen to radio streams etc.



No Digital TV is provided

If your set-top box is connected to your Technicolor Gateway, it will no longer be able to connect to the Internet, hence

not be able to service your TV set.

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Sharing Content

Introduction

The Technicolor Gateway allows you to share the content stored on your USB storage device with other users on your

network or even access this shared content from the Internet.

Features



The Technicolor Gateway supports USB 2.0



The following file systems are supported:



NTFS (optional)



FAT32



FAT16



HFS+ (optional)



EXT2/EXT3 (optional)



You can connect up to five USB storage devices (via a USB hub).



Each USB storage device can have up to 10 partitions. If your device has more partitions the extra partitions will be

ignored.

Content Sharing Servers

The Technicolor Gateway offers three types of services to share your content. The following table gives a you a brief

overview of the main functions:

Network File Server

UPnP AV Media Server

FTP Server

Function

Store and access your data

on your local network.

Make media files available

for UPnP AV capable

devices like Media players,

Set-Top boxes from your

local network.

Store and access your data

from the Internet.

Access

Read and write

Read-only

Read and write

Accessible from

Local network

Local network

Internet

and Local network

Type of content shared

All files from all partitions

and disks that are

connected.

Media

files (music, movies

and pictures) from all

partitions and disks that are

connected.

All files that are stored in

the

Shared

folder of the

managed partition.

For more information,

see...

“7.1 The Network File

Server” on page 51

“7.2 The UPnP AV Media

Server” on page 54

“7.3 The FTP Server” on

page 58