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Presumably you are also aware of the huge power waste that GigE incurs?


GigE power consumption is typically 1->3 watts per port, at each end of the link.

By comparison, the new 24-port 10/100 switch that we just installed here consumes a mere 3W total with most ports idle, and a max of only 6.5W with all 24 ports active.

Measured and verified by me.

EDIT: The same switch was also available with 2 GigE ports (26 ports in total), but we passed on that because the overall power consumption *doubled* to 12.5W. /EDIT

Cheers

Preserving the planet has to begin somewhere.


Edited by mlord (30/11/2007 13:31)