Network Managers and Their Organisations' Enviromental Programmes
Malaysian Business › July 17, 2008
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IT EQUIPMENT, CONSUMER electronics and telephony consume power at the rate of at least 250 TWh/year worldwide - and these rates are rising. That's the equivalent of over 180 million tonnes of CO2 per year. About half of this is accounted for by IT equipment - PCs, displays, printers, servers and networking. PCs and servers have made significant progress in power saving, and the networking industry is fast catching up, with initiatives like the Energy- efficient Ethernet standard.
With significant power and cost savings available, it makes sense to ascertain up-front whether a networking vendor has the right "green" credentials. Do they offer maximum power efficiency? Are the products and solutions upgradable to deliver power over the network in the most efficient way? Are they based on an open, industry standards-based architecture? Are new convergence applications embedded? Do they use the latest hardware design and silicon? And does the networking vendor have demonstrable "green" credentials and conform to recognised standards?See the full content of this document
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Network Managers and Their Organisations' Enviromental Programmes
CONVERGENCE DRIVING INCREASED NETWORK POWER DEMANDS
The trend for previously separate data, voice and security networks to become increasingly convergent, with computers, phones and other applications running over a single p...See the full content of this document
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