Reducing energy use by 90% in comm networks

摘要

The Internet just turned 20 years old and the amount of data traffic has increased and will continue to increase exponentially and we need a way control the energy consumption by the communications networks. Optimizing the networks for energy consumption is what we need to do, according to researchers at the GreenTouch consortium, which is composed of information and communications technology companies, academic, and non-governmental research experts.