Industry directives, laws, and rising energy costs are causing companies that rely on IT networks to find ways to make their networks more green and sustainable.  Small changes can make a significant difference but many business owners don’t know what to look for our how to begin.  We’re here to help.

There are three key areas that can help you attain a more sustainable network.

1. Efficiency of Operation

A network’s ability to provide collaboration services not only minimizes the time multiple employees spend on efficient processes, but helps to reduce overall power use and increase effectiveness.  Integrated services networks are the key as they tend to be the most productive, and cost less to upgrade incrementally, growing only as the business itself grows.

2.  Efficiency of Power Use

The best way to control and limit energy cost and consumption is by purchasing an integrated services network like the Cisco Enhanced 2-port OC12/STM4 ATM OSM+switch. These centrally managed networking solutions require less power to do more work and keep consumption down. Power supplies which have been optimized also help considerably, as does intelligent power management.

3. Maximization of Equipment Life

Upgrading constantly creates hardware waste. A sustainability plan must include networking hardware that can evolve as the business evolves without being replaced by new physical components.  An integrated system also helps on this front as the system itself can be retained when pieces of the system are upgraded. For example, you can keep the networking hardware and simply upgrade the software to a better security package if desired.

Tags: going green, Green, green networking practices, integrated networking systems, sustainablility

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