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Switch Vendors Call For Green Measurement Standards
May 21, 2008 — (GREEN DATA CENTER INFO) — ChannelWeb (www.crn.com) yesterday reported that network switching vendors want more standards around Green IT.
As “green” has become more and more of a buzzword in the switching market, vendors are trying to out-do each other in the field of power consumption. Or rather, lack thereof.
However, it is disputed exactly how the “greenness” of network equipment is measured. One thing many network switching vendors agree upon is that there needs to be some “standard of measure” in determining what’s green and not.
“Green is becoming a very important area in the industry,” said Inbar Lasser-Raab, director of access routing and switching for Cisco Systems. “But there are no industry-defined parameters. There is no one measure to say who is the greenest.”
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