Energy consumption in IP networks

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Conference Paper

Tucker, Rodney S., Jayant Baliga, Robert Ayre, Kerry Hinton, and Wayne V. Sorin. 2008. “Energy Consumption in IP Networks.” In 2008 34th European Conference on Optical Communication, 1–1. Brussels, Belgium: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729202

A model of energy consumption in IP networks is used to estimate the energy consumption of the public Internet. Today’s Internet uses less than 1% of the available electricity supply. However, network energy consumption could grow substantially as access rates increase.