Nortel’s latest salvo – global Cisco Energy Tax equals 23m cars on the road
Nortel’s director of enterprise technology, Tony Rybczynski, writes in his blog that the sum emissions from the world’s install base of Cisco equipment is equivalent to over a trillion kilometres of travel in a small car.
“Across some 500 million Cisco enterprise ports globally, Cisco is adding an additional 11.5 MILLION metric tons of CO2, that wouldn’t be added to the atmosphere if those ports were Nortel,” Rybczynski wrote on its The Hyperconnected Enterprise blog. “That is equivalent to 656 BILLION miles (over a trillion kilometres) of travel in small cars or 23 MILLION cars at 30,000 miles per year!!!!”
According to the Rybczynski’s post, switching a 2,500 user network with GigE desktops and IP telephony from Cisco to Nortel switches would offer CO2 emission savings of 7,106 metric tons, equivalent to 150 large cars or 249 small cars driven 100,000 miles each over 5 years.
“In fact, over a five-year period, businesses worldwide are spending $6.1-billion more in energy costs to power and cool Cisco networks than they would have had they used a comparable Nortel solution,” he said.
See Rybczynski’s original post at: http://blog.tmcnet.com/the-hyperconnected-enterprise/green-it/ciscos-human-network-effect-taxes-and-co2-emissions.asp
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Category: Climate change, Data centres, Networks
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