[CAnet - news] How green was my fiber?

For more information on this item please visit my blog at 
http://green-broadband.blogspot.com/ or http://billstarnaud.blogspot.com
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 [Olivier Jerphagnon has an excellent blog on ICT and green technologies. As
he points out in his most recent posting with the new 100G optical
technology and FTTH he state that "fiber optics is a very "green" technology
compared to semiconductor electronics. When you look at it more closely, it
dissipates a lot less energy than copper based cables and it saves a lot of
materials: one single strand of glass can carry as much data as many
thousands of copper cables, and it can do over a longer distance without
using electronic equipment to regenerate it."

As I mentioned in past postings, I expect future network utilization will be
measured on a "bits per carbon" basis rather than "bits per second".  With
the new 100G wavelength technology, dramatic over provisioning will be the
basic design principle. Not only will this make network management much
easier, it will also significantly reduce carbon footprint of
networks.--BSA]

Olivier Jerphagnon's blog
http://greenfrog.typepad.com/weblog/2008/02/fiber-is-green.html


Also there is a new newsletter on Green Data Centers and Internet Business
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