[109143] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ixia, Juniper going green?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glen Kent)
Thu Nov 6 01:10:14 2008
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 11:40:09 +0530
From: "Glen Kent" <glen.kent@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811051948180.6047@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Cc: OPS Gurus <nanog@merit.edu>
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Just saw www.vnl.in
Agreed that they're not making routers, but if a base station can be
made, then am sure some inroads can be made in data comm too .. !
Glen
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Justin M. Streiner
<streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Glen Kent wrote:
>
>> http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=166871
>>
>> I wonder what impact this would put on other vendors to turn down
>> their power consumptions and turn, as Juniper and Ixia like to put it
>> - Green!
>
> I do recall some people bashing Cisco products for their power consumption
> at a recent tech event I attended. Granted, that event was Juniper-centric
> :)
>
> Given the economic (rising power and cooling costs) and sometimes logistical
> (lack of power available in a facility) realities of operating networks and
> data centers, I'm sure everyone would love for their gear to draw less
> power. How many watts could actually be saved remains to be seen...
>
> jms
>
