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Energy consumption in IP networks

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Tucker, Rodney S., Jayant Baliga, Robert Ayre, Kerry Hinton, and Wayne V. Sorin. 2008. “Energy Consumption in IP Networks.” 2008 34th European Conference on Optical Communication, 1–1. 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.

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