Title :
Network Energy Efficiency in the data center
Author_Institution :
Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
Data center energy-use has been a leading topic in computing for more than a decade. In 2006, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted a study to understand data center energy-use trends and recommended a systems-wide approach to achieving energy efficiency. In the same year the IEEE began work on Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE), which completed in 2010, producing another tool in the energy-efficiency solution set. While IEEE 802.3az™-2010 specifies EEE for twisted-pair copper and backplane interface, this paper examines the motivation for energy-efficient networking in data centers, the role Energy-Efficient Ethernet could have in making the data center network energy-proportional, and how EEE combined with optical networks may optimize network energy-use.
Keywords :
IEEE standards; computer centres; energy conservation; local area networks; EPA; Energy-Efficient Ethernet; IEEE 802.3az-2010; US Environmental Protection Agency; backplane interface; data center energy-use; data center network energy; energy-efficiency solution set; energy-efficient networking; network energy efficiency; network energy-use; twisted-pair copper; Backplanes; EPON; Energy efficiency; IEEE 802.3 Standards; Optical fiber networks; Ports (Computers); Servers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
