Energy consumption in IP networks

Rodney S. Tucker, Jayant Baliga, Robert Ayre, Kerry Hinton, Wayne V. Sorin

2008 · 69 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

A model of energy consumption in IP networks is used to estimate the energy consumption of the public Internet. Today’s Internet uses less than 1% of the available electricity supply. However, network energy consumption could grow substantially as access rates increase.

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