August 19th, 2009
Time to bone up on energy-aware Internet routing
Telecommunications companies have made call-routing as inexpensive as possible. So why shouldn’t businesses finetune the most cost-efficient — and energy-efficient — path for data to travel their data centers and networks.
There are several worth-reading blogs and articles floating around the blogosphere this week focused on the concept of “energy-aware” Internet routing, or the concept that someone who runs power-hungry data centers could set up algorithms that move the data around to be processed where it is most cost-effective from a power standpoint.
Wow, that’s a mouthful. Sorry.
What I mean to say is that data would be sent according to the most energy-efficient path.
Anyway, the movement is being speared by some academic and research sorts hailing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and Akamai. Actually, one of the people who is talking up this idea this week in cyber-posts is Jonathan Koomey, the same person who authored some of the energy-efficiency articles that I pointed to in my Eco-Ears post about the green nature of digital music. No coincidence this.
Here are several resource articles about energy-aware Internet routing:
Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist in the New York area with more than 20 years experience covering the high-tech industry. See her full profile and disclosure of her industry affiliations. See her full profile and disclosure of her industry affiliations.
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