The Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) recently announced it is expanding its push for energy efficiency with the creation of a new industry workgroup focused on networking equipment. 
While energy use of networking equipment is only a small percentage of overall building and computing energy use, it is expected to grow by more that 6 percent per year as the number of networking devices in use increases.
“We hope to reverse this trend, and we think we can,” said Lorie Wigle, general manager of the Eco-Technology Program Office for Intel Corporation and president of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative.
“Our expansion into networking is designed to address and reduce the environmental and economic impact of the devices and systems by developing and deploying global standards that will provide enhanced design, delivery, and adoption of high efficiency electronics,” Wigle explained.
CSCI estimates that with energy efficient routers, switches, and connected devices that power everything from the Internet to mobile technologies, the IT industry can avoid 38 million metric tons of CO2 emissions by 2015. That is equivalent to $5 billion in energy cost savings and 51 billion KWh in energy savings.
Started by Google and Intel in 2007, CSCI is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses, and conservation organizations dedicated to reducing the energy consumption of the IT sector.
This new Networking Workgroup combines new and existing leadership from companies such as Cisco, CompTIA, Emerson Network Power, Finisar, HP, Intel, Juniper Networks, and Sony Electronics.
“The ultimate goal of the Networking Workgroup is to help advance end-to-end network energy efficiency through the commercial adoption of higher efficiency networking equipment,” said Oliver Tavakoli, CTO of Juniper’s Service Layer Technology Business Group.
The new workgroup will also examine ways to increase commercial awareness of such technology and standards, and then focus on home and business networking devices.
The workgroup will also develop alliances with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other key stakeholders to formalize networking energy efficiency criteria.
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Angela Guss
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