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A TEAM of researchers who demonstrated that an end-to-end network can cut its energy use by 98 percent, while still increasing its traffic, has been named finalists at the 2016 Edison Awards.
The GreenTouch Consortium is supported by the Melbourne School of Engineering’s Centre of Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET), the world’s first research centre exclusively dedicated to driving the creation of energy-efficient telecommunications on a global scale.
The researchers undertook the Green Meter study, where they successfully showed how it would be possible to improve telecommunications energy efficiency by a factor of 1000.
In fact, working from a baseline of energy consumption in 2010, the researchers found it would be possible to improve network energy efficiency by a factor of 10,000x in mobile networks, by a factor of 254x in fixed access networks and by a factor of 316x in core networks.
This improvement would be possible despite an explosion in traffic going through these networks from 2010 to 2020.
From the initial vision and a preliminary set of ideas, GreenTouch proposed an entire portfolio of architectures, technologies, components and algorithms, and developed comprehensive methodologies to understand and evaluate the energy performance of all these technologies.
Green Meter was nominated in the Collective Disruption category of the 2016 Edison Awards.
The Edison Awards aim to recognise and honour some of the most innovative new products, services and business leaders in the world. They will be presented in New York on 21 April.