Managing energy consumption costs in desktop PCs and LAN switches with proxying, split TCP connections, and scaling of link speed
Chamara Gunaratne, Ken Christensen, Bruce Nordman · International Journal of Network Management · 2005
Abstract The IT equipment comprising the Internet in the USA uses about $6 billion of electricity every year. Much of this electricity use is wasted on idle, but fully powered‐up, desktop PCs and network links. We show how to recover a large portion of the wasted electricity with improved power management methods that are focused on network issues. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.