Posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 3:34 pm
A new global consortium of industry, academic and government laboratories has been launched this week with the aim of making communication networks 1000 times’ more energy efficient than they are today.
If successful, the impact of the consortium – known as Green Touch – would be massive: a thousand-fold improvement is roughly equivalent to being able to power the world’s communications networks, including the internet, for three years using the same amount of energy that it currently takes to run them for a single day.
The thousand-fold target is based on research by consortium leader Bell Labs, which concluded that today’s information and communication technology (ICT) networks have the potential to be 10,000 times more efficient then they are today.
