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Green they say.
On the far side of the hill?
Over the last few months industry interest in ‘green’ – or at least ‘greener’ -
telecommunications has skyrocketed. In addition to energy consumption-related
concerns about environmental damage, and on-going attempts to use alternative
sources of power to bring communications to rural and remote areas not served
by conventional electricity grids, the flailing global economy and the tightening
credit squeeze has now focused executive attention on the rising costs of running
networks and systems.
Although the ICT industry is often that in the IT domain in one year a 1U rack EMENA vice president, sales and
presented as a force for good in the switch with 24 Ethernet ports in continuous marketing, at Andrew writes that mobile
context of the environment – use of use will notch up 2,190 kWh, and the coal operators are currently spending as much
videoconferencing to save on car and used to generate that power will release two as half of their OpEx on energy. Again,
plane journeys is a favourite example - the tons of CO2 along with other pollutants. ABI in its report ‘Mobile Networks Go
energy needs of ICT solutions can be Green’ calculates that over the next few
surprisingly high. ABI Research, publisher Nor are the actual costs of ICT energy years the growing cost of bulk diesel fuel,
of the recent ‘Green Wi-Fi, Data Centers, inconsequential. In a posting on the coupled with wholesale electricity price
and Network Switches’ analysis, calculates telecomredux website Andrea Casini, increases, are likely to offset significant
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