Designing Green Networks and Network Operations: Saving Run-the-Engine Costs (Hardcover)

In recent years, socio-political trends toward environmental responsibility and the pressing need to reduce Run-the-Engine (RTE) costs have resulted in the concept of Green IT. Although a significant amount of energy is used to operate routing, switching, and transmission equipment, comparatively less attention has been paid to Green Networking. A clear and concise introduction to green networks and green network operations, Designing Green Networks and Network Operations: Saving Run-the-Engine Costs guides you through the techniques available to achieve efficiency goals for corporate and carrier networks, including deploying more efficient hardware, blade form-factor routers and switches, and pursuing consolidation, virtualization, and network and cloud computing.

The book:

• Delineates techniques to minimize network power, cooling, floor space, and online storage while optimizing service performance, capacity, and availability
• Discusses virtualization, network computing, and Web services as approaches for green data centers and networks
• Emphasizes best practices and compliance with international standards for green operations
• Extends the green data center techniques to the networking environment
• Incorporates green principles in the intranet, extranet, and the entire IT infrastructures
• Reviews networking, power management, HVAC and CRAC basics
• Presents methodical steps toward a seamless migration to Green IT and Green Networking

近年來，社會政治趨勢朝向環境責任和減少運營成本的迫切需求，導致了綠色資訊技術（Green IT）的概念的出現。儘管運營路由、交換和傳輸設備需要大量能源，但對於綠色網絡的關注相對較少。《設計綠色網絡和網絡運營：節省運營成本》提供了對綠色網絡和綠色網絡運營的清晰簡明介紹，引導讀者了解實現企業和運營商網絡效率目標的技術，包括部署更高效的硬件、刀片形式的路由器和交換機，以及追求整合、虛擬化、網絡和雲計算。

本書包括以下內容：
- 描繪了最小化網絡功耗、冷卻、機房空間和在線存儲的技術，同時優化服務性能、容量和可用性。
- 討論虛擬化、網絡計算和Web服務作為綠色數據中心和網絡的方法。
- 強調最佳實踐和符合國際綠色運營標準。
- 將綠色數據中心技術擴展到網絡環境。
- 在內部網、外部網和整個IT基礎設施中融入綠色原則。
- 回顧網絡、電源管理、暖通空調和CRAC基礎知識。
- 提供實現無縫遷移至綠色IT和綠色網絡的步驟。

這本書將幫助讀者了解如何在網絡運營中實現綠色目標，從而節省運營成本。