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  • Energy-efficient Ethernet: A greener choice for 2010

    Posted March 3, 2010 - 2:52 pm

    Data center managers and equipment vendors looking for greener alternatives will begin to benefit this year from a major initiative aimed at reducing the power consumed by Ethernet equipment. IEEE 802.3az, or the Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard, will implement low-power idle (LPI) modes for the full range of Ethernet BASE-T transceivers (100Mb, 1GbE and 10GbE) and the backplane physical layer standards (1GbE, 4-lane 1GbE and 10GbE).

  • A New Green Gold Standard

    Posted April 20, 2009 - 4:57 pm

    A recent EPA study on energy-saving opportunities in servers and data centers noted that the industry uses an enormous amount of energy -- more than 1.5% of all electricity generated in the U.S. So it's no surprise that many people see data centers as a major part of the climate change problem. But the EPA sees this as an opportunity.
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