What benefits will users see from going Green?
Reduced heat and power consumption, cost savings and a longer life expectancy for networking kit. Users may not be so aware of the power consumption of individual pieces of equipment, but they’ll be able to feel the heat of them. With Gigabit products in particular, users will notice a big difference in the amount of heat emitted by the switches. This should in turn prolong the lifespan of the products, since parts will not be exposed to such long periods of heat. We’ve talked to many customers and everyone from the largest enterprise to the home user wants to save energy and networking devices are often the target. They’re seen as very power hungry because mostly they are powered up all the time. In the US, a 2002 Department of Energy Study estimated the total power consumption of enterprise IT equipment in US offices to be 97 terawatt hours per year, which translates to around $8bn in energy costs. Even a small reduction in that figure would be a sizeable saving.
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