Design for Environment (DfE) has become an increasingly important dimension of environmental management for WatchGuard. How one vendor has adopted green issues?
WatchGuard Technologies strives, within their functional requirements, to minimize the environmental impact of their products by:
- Carefully designing and selecting appliance and packaging material that are recyclable
- Designing appliances that use as little energy as possible
- Minimizing materials by focusing appliance functionality and media
LogicalTech Group is a Professional Partner with WatchGuard Technologies. Design for Environment (DfE) has become an increasingly important dimension of environmental management for WatchGuard. Enacted and proposed collection and treatment policies (WEEE), Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) policies in Europe and Asia, recycle-oriented eco-label requirements, and increasing environmental awareness have all prompted the electronics industry to continuously improve the recyclability of its product designs. Designing network firewall appliances that minimize overall environmental impact and are recyclable has therefore come to be viewed not only as environmentally beneficial, but also as a strategic business requirement for WatchGuard.
To that end, WatchGuard continues to dedicate resources and implement policies to ensure that the products they sell minimize overall environmental impacts. They achieve this by creating designs that reduce material usage and waste, increase recyclability, lengthen life cycles, and minimize energy consumption in all aspects of their distribution and operation. Read more about recyclable products from WatchGuard.
WatchGuard Is Green
WatchGuard strives to minimize the environmental impact of their products by providing their customers with earth-friendly security technology. They build network security solutions that are dependable, easy to use, and environmentally responsible by creating products that reduce material usage and waste, lengthen life cycles, and minimize
energy consumption in all aspects of product distribution and operation. These include:
• Aggregating multi-layered security capabilities into single-plug solutions. Fully integrated components provide maximum network protection and energy efficiency with only one appliance to plug in.
• Carefully designed and selected recyclable appliances and packaging materials.
• Zero carbon upgrades – our XTM family of firewall/VPN appliances allow you to upgrade to a higher model using a software license key – no new hardware to buy, no hardware to dispose of.
Find out how these environmental directives affect your WatchGuard equipment disposal,
particularly if:
• You have a WatchGuard product that is at its end of life that needs disposal.
• You want to contact a vendor regarding disposal of your appliance per the statutes in your country.
• You have an appliance released prior to the e-Series and need to arrange for your appliance’s disposal.
Please have your appliance serial number (on either the back or bottom of your appliance) available when you contact WatchGuard Customer Care.
WatchGuard Commitment to Environmental Legislative Compliance
WatchGuard actively supports responsible Environmental Stewardship. They participate in global efforts to minimize potential dangers to the environment, by following:
• Directive 2002/96/EU, which regulates waste from electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE).
• Directive 2002/95/EU, which restricts the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS).
• Administration on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products –“China RoHS”, which requires that products within the scope of the law be properly marked.
WatchGuard XTM Series, XCS Series, and Firebox® X e-Series appliances have been specifically designed to support these directives. Working in partnership with their EU and Chinese distribution partners, they ensure that their products comply with their statutes and that the recovery of their products, according to specific EU country legislative requirements, is seamless for their end usersa dn channel partners.
WatchGuard® Technologies is a leader in network security and remote access solutions worldwide. Their ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship, performance, value, and customer service has earned recognition from customers, partners, industry analysts, and technical and business publications. LogicalTech is one of Australia’s most trusted enterprise security services and solutions Professional Technology Partner to WatchGuard® Technologies.
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