The document discusses a modular cooling solution for data centers as an alternative to traditional CRAC-based cooling. It presents the modular cooling unit design, which uses refrigerant to transfer heat directly from server racks to the building's chilled water system. A case study shows the modular units reduced server temperatures by 14-24 degrees F in a lab without using air conditioning. The modular approach improves efficiency by up to 90%, utilizes space better, and provides a payback period of 3.3 years or less compared to traditional cooling systems.
The document describes Nautica's Multiple Small Plate (MSP) dehumidification technology. MSP technology uses small plate heat exchangers and smaller compressors to pre-cool and partially dehumidify incoming air, allowing larger dehumidification capacity with 50% lower energy costs than conventional systems. Nautica offers MSP technology in air handling units and fanless modules for various indoor applications, including food processing, hospitals, schools, and more.
VIRBAK ABIO v3.2 is an enterprise backup application designed for flexibility, scalability, and simplicity. It provides the fastest deployment through a simple installation process and intuitive GUI. ABIO supports heterogeneous environments, all major operating systems and databases, and can scale from small to large enterprises. It aims to make backup configuration and management easy through features like centralized monitoring and automated job configuration.
The document provides an overview of the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Basic Operating System (BOS) and Basic Operating System V (BOS V). It discusses the key features and benefits, including a layered approach and components. BOS provides common management tools and virtual partitions, while BOS V adds external storage virtualization and expands virtual partitions. Benefits include business agility, operational excellence, and optimized storage system performance. An example success story at a large brokerage firm is also briefly mentioned.
- Quorum onQ provides one-click backup, recovery, and continuity for servers and systems after any storage, server, or site failure through virtual machine clones that can run on local or remote appliances.
- It allows for one-click testing of disaster recovery plans and simple management through a browser-based interface. File-level restores and testing can be done in minutes.
- Quorum onQ is designed for small to mid-sized businesses, delivering easy, fast, and reliable continuity solutions at an affordable price through turnkey appliances.
ShadowProtect Server and ShadowProtect Small Business Server provide fast and reliable disaster recovery, data protection, and system migration for Windows servers. They maximize business continuity by minimizing recovery time. The software backs up operating systems, applications, configurations, and data. It allows rapid recovery to the same or different hardware, or to virtual environments. Recovery can be of entire servers or individual files and folders.
Our Green Mission أهدافنا خضراء تقليل هدر الطاقة فى منظومتي التكييف والتهوية و تجويد أجواء الحياة الداخلية تقديرا لقيمة أمنا «الأرض»
To efficiently reduce energy wastage in HVAC Industry and improve the quality of indoor environment with high regards to our mother “Earth”.
The document summarizes the keynote presentation by Hubert Yoshida, VP and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, given at the Sun Storage Academy in August 2007. It discusses the growth of storage capacity needs and costs, issues with outdated storage architectures, and benefits of the Hitachi storage virtualization platform including non-disruptive data migration between storage tiers, reduced costs through thin provisioning and backup optimization, and consolidation of different storage systems and applications on a common platform.
The document discusses the Infortrend DS series RAID storage system. It provides entry-level DAS and SAN storage for SMBs and enterprise remote sites. The DS series offers FC, iSCSI, and SAS host interfaces across 2U, 3U, and 4U form factors supporting up to 240 drives. It includes the SANWatch management suite for local volume-level replication, thin provisioning, and remote replication functionality. The DS series emphasizes high availability through redundant components, cache protection, RAID 6, and local/remote replication capabilities.
The document describes Nautica's Multiple Small Plate (MSP) dehumidification technology. MSP technology uses small plate heat exchangers and smaller compressors to pre-cool and partially dehumidify incoming air, allowing larger dehumidification capacity with 50% lower energy costs than conventional systems. Nautica offers MSP technology in air handling units and fanless modules for various indoor applications, including food processing, hospitals, schools, and more.
VIRBAK ABIO v3.2 is an enterprise backup application designed for flexibility, scalability, and simplicity. It provides the fastest deployment through a simple installation process and intuitive GUI. ABIO supports heterogeneous environments, all major operating systems and databases, and can scale from small to large enterprises. It aims to make backup configuration and management easy through features like centralized monitoring and automated job configuration.
The document provides an overview of the Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Basic Operating System (BOS) and Basic Operating System V (BOS V). It discusses the key features and benefits, including a layered approach and components. BOS provides common management tools and virtual partitions, while BOS V adds external storage virtualization and expands virtual partitions. Benefits include business agility, operational excellence, and optimized storage system performance. An example success story at a large brokerage firm is also briefly mentioned.
- Quorum onQ provides one-click backup, recovery, and continuity for servers and systems after any storage, server, or site failure through virtual machine clones that can run on local or remote appliances.
- It allows for one-click testing of disaster recovery plans and simple management through a browser-based interface. File-level restores and testing can be done in minutes.
- Quorum onQ is designed for small to mid-sized businesses, delivering easy, fast, and reliable continuity solutions at an affordable price through turnkey appliances.
ShadowProtect Server and ShadowProtect Small Business Server provide fast and reliable disaster recovery, data protection, and system migration for Windows servers. They maximize business continuity by minimizing recovery time. The software backs up operating systems, applications, configurations, and data. It allows rapid recovery to the same or different hardware, or to virtual environments. Recovery can be of entire servers or individual files and folders.
Our Green Mission أهدافنا خضراء تقليل هدر الطاقة فى منظومتي التكييف والتهوية و تجويد أجواء الحياة الداخلية تقديرا لقيمة أمنا «الأرض»
To efficiently reduce energy wastage in HVAC Industry and improve the quality of indoor environment with high regards to our mother “Earth”.
The document summarizes the keynote presentation by Hubert Yoshida, VP and CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, given at the Sun Storage Academy in August 2007. It discusses the growth of storage capacity needs and costs, issues with outdated storage architectures, and benefits of the Hitachi storage virtualization platform including non-disruptive data migration between storage tiers, reduced costs through thin provisioning and backup optimization, and consolidation of different storage systems and applications on a common platform.
The document discusses the Infortrend DS series RAID storage system. It provides entry-level DAS and SAN storage for SMBs and enterprise remote sites. The DS series offers FC, iSCSI, and SAS host interfaces across 2U, 3U, and 4U form factors supporting up to 240 drives. It includes the SANWatch management suite for local volume-level replication, thin provisioning, and remote replication functionality. The DS series emphasizes high availability through redundant components, cache protection, RAID 6, and local/remote replication capabilities.
Ppt4 exp leeds - alan real and jon summers ( university of leeds ) experien...JISC's Green ICT Programme
This document summarizes a project analyzing the EU Code of Conduct (CoC) for data centers. It discusses the design and operation of a green 1 MW data center facility from 2010-2011. It provides an analysis of the EU CoC best practices and Bull's compliance. Recommendations include using hot aisle containment and raising inlet temperatures. Future work could include CFD analysis and adding economizers. The document also discusses the phased expansion of the N8 HPC center, increasing capacity to 155 Tflops by 2012 using rear door cooling and a resilient pumping solution.
The document discusses the advantages of liquid cooling over traditional air cooling for data centers. Liquid cooling allows for higher compute capacity and energy savings by removing heat more efficiently and accurately from servers. It also discusses a new nanofluid being developed by the NanoHex project that could improve heat transfer even further when integrated into a liquid cooling system. Finally, it presents a unique liquid cooling device developed by Thermacore Europe that is ready to install in servers and could double the compute capabilities of a data center while delivering coolant directly to processors.
The document provides information about a district cooling plant located on the rooftop of the Curve in Mutiara Damansara. The plant has a peak cooling capacity of 7,600 tons and can supply cooling to three customer buildings: The Curve, Cineleisure, and The Royale Bintang Hotel. It describes the facilities and systems used at the plant, including chillers, pumps, cooling towers, heat exchangers, and an ice storage tank. The document also summarizes the chilled water revenue from 2006 for each customer building.
The document discusses how modular data center facility modules can provide lower cost, flexible capacity and predictable efficiency compared to traditional data center designs. Modular designs use standardized building blocks that can be combined to deliver power and cooling in pre-engineered, pre-fabricated modules. This approach allows for faster deployment, easier scalability and standardization that reduces costs compared to custom designed traditional data centers. The modular approach will make traditional designs obsolete due to advantages in addressing trends like increasing energy costs, dynamic IT loads and tighter regulations.
The document discusses district cooling systems, including how they work by producing chilled water at a central plant and distributing it via underground pipes to multiple buildings for air conditioning, the components of district cooling systems such as the central chiller plant, distribution network, and user stations, and examples of district cooling systems used in Malaysia.
Schneider Alex Kretschmer Presentation Deck Facility Modules Nyc Sept 2011wlambert_2001
1) Modular data center facility modules provide standardized, pre-engineered power and cooling systems in packages like containers or skids.
2) This approach offers benefits like faster deployment, flexibility to scale over time, lower costs, and easier operation and maintenance compared to traditional customized designs.
3) Key advantages include maximizing free cooling through optimized economizer modes, adapting quickly to changing IT loads, spreading control system costs, and reducing risks from human errors during maintenance.
Schneider Alex Kretschmer Presentation Deck Facility Modules Nyc Sept 2011wlambert_2001
1) Modular data center facility modules provide standardized, pre-engineered power and cooling systems in packages like containers or skids.
2) This approach offers benefits like faster deployment, flexibility to scale over time, lower costs, and easier operation and maintenance compared to traditional customized designs.
3) Key advantages include improved utilization of economizer modes for free cooling, dynamic responsiveness to changes in IT power usage, and lower costs through standardized control systems across deployments.
One of our most popular webinar presentations on data center cooling: 2007 Data Center Cooling Study: Comparing Conventional Raised Floors with Close Coupled Cooling Technology.
If you're looking for a solution, it's simple physics: Water is 3,500 times more effective at cooling than air. But, liquid cooling carries a large stigma particularly because of the large price tag. And, if you're like other Data Center Managers, the words of Jerry McGuire may be ringing in your head "Show me the money!"
To view the recorded webinar presentation, please visit http://www.42u.com/data-center-liquid-cooling-webinar.htm
David Bahniuk is a mechanical engineer who has worked on several large-scale HVAC and mechanical projects for historical buildings. The document describes a proposed project for Rockwool International involving installing an absorption chiller system to provide air conditioning for a manufacturing facility using waste heat from a furnace. It compares the absorption chiller option to using traditional air-cooled chillers, finding that the absorption system would significantly reduce energy costs while providing sufficient cooling capacity. The installed system ended up using a 750-ton chiller instead of the proposed absorption system due to budget cuts, but was still designed to accommodate future absorption cooling.
cooling system in computer -air / water coolingIbrahem Batta
This document discusses different cooling techniques for electronic devices, including air cooling, liquid cooling, and their components. It provides details on heat sinks, thermal interface materials, fans, blowers, and their differences. Liquid cooling uses water to transmit heat more efficiently than air cooling due to water's higher heat capacity and conductivity. While more effective, liquid cooling systems are more expensive, larger, require technical skills, and carry safety risks if leaked.
The document discusses Deep FreezeTM, a next generation liquid cooling technology for blade servers. Deep FreezeTM uses ionized water circulating through a chassis-based heat sink as a closed-loop system. This allows it to efficiently cool blade servers within the chassis in a self-contained manner, without mixing hot and cold air or requiring complex CFD analysis of airflow. Deep FreezeTM addresses increasing data center cooling challenges and offers benefits like reduced maintenance costs and increased computing efficiency over traditional air-cooling methods. It represents the most efficient blade server cooling design currently available.
Cold/Hot Pool Solutions for DC provides solutions to address increasing heat loads from servers using cold aisle/hot aisle containment strategies. It discusses challenges with traditional cooling methods and how cold aisle containment isolates cold air to better cool servers without mixing with hot air. Hot aisle containment similarly isolates hot air exhaust. These solutions reduce cooling costs by lowering temperature needs and energy consumption compared to traditional methods. Intelligent airflow control methods are also proposed to more efficiently cool server racks based on varying load conditions.
In hot climates such as the Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC) region, the cooling systems demand represents approximately 50% and up to 70% of total and peak electricity consumptions, respectively. In Iraq cooling shares about 75% of the electricity consumption.
The document discusses district cooling systems (DCS), including:
1. DCS involve centralized chilled water production and distribution to multiple buildings through underground pipes for air conditioning. This is more efficient than individual building chillers.
2. Examples of DCS in Malaysia include serving Kuala Lumpur International Airport since 1997 and government buildings in Putrajaya since 1999.
3. The Bangsar DCS in Kuala Lumpur uses thermal energy storage at night to take advantage of lower electricity rates, supplying hotels, offices and other buildings during the day.
Data center sustainability mission critical may june 2018Daren Klum
Total immersion liquid cooling is a technology where all electronics are submerged in a dielectric fluid that conducts heat but not electricity. It provides several advantages over traditional air cooling systems like eliminating fans, reducing thermal fluctuations, and lowering CPU temperatures. While it is the most efficient way to dissipate heat, liquid cooling has been slow to adopt due to the large investment required to redesign data center infrastructure, though some approaches have faced issues with cost, maintenance, and scalability. As cloud operators focus more on operational efficiency and reducing energy usage and waste, total immersion liquid cooling may become a more viable option.
Setty & Associates International is an engineering firm established in 2002 with 47 members specializing in mechanical, electrical, and other engineering disciplines. The document discusses and compares three options for mechanical systems for a building: self-contained roof top units, a chiller/boiler with air handling units, and a variable refrigerant flow system. Each option is described in one or two sentences.
The document discusses LISP (Locator/ID Separation Protocol), which was developed by Cisco to address scalability issues facing the Internet. LISP solves these issues by separating a host's identifier (EID) from its locator (RLOC) using an encapsulation scheme and mapping system. This allows routing scalability by removing most host routes from the global routing system and storing them in a distributed database. The document outlines LISP's control and data plane operations, use cases, and Cisco's involvement in developing and standardizing the protocol.
This document discusses the transition to IP/MPLS in mobile backhaul networks. As networks evolve to support 4G/LTE, MPLS provides a unified solution for transporting various technologies like legacy TDM/ATM, Ethernet, and IP. MPLS enables features like scalability, reliability, manageability, traffic engineering, and quality of service required by mobile backhaul. The transition involves migrating networks to MPLS in phases, starting with aggregation and eventually supporting all technologies over a common MPLS infrastructure.
Ppt4 exp leeds - alan real and jon summers ( university of leeds ) experien...JISC's Green ICT Programme
This document summarizes a project analyzing the EU Code of Conduct (CoC) for data centers. It discusses the design and operation of a green 1 MW data center facility from 2010-2011. It provides an analysis of the EU CoC best practices and Bull's compliance. Recommendations include using hot aisle containment and raising inlet temperatures. Future work could include CFD analysis and adding economizers. The document also discusses the phased expansion of the N8 HPC center, increasing capacity to 155 Tflops by 2012 using rear door cooling and a resilient pumping solution.
The document discusses the advantages of liquid cooling over traditional air cooling for data centers. Liquid cooling allows for higher compute capacity and energy savings by removing heat more efficiently and accurately from servers. It also discusses a new nanofluid being developed by the NanoHex project that could improve heat transfer even further when integrated into a liquid cooling system. Finally, it presents a unique liquid cooling device developed by Thermacore Europe that is ready to install in servers and could double the compute capabilities of a data center while delivering coolant directly to processors.
The document provides information about a district cooling plant located on the rooftop of the Curve in Mutiara Damansara. The plant has a peak cooling capacity of 7,600 tons and can supply cooling to three customer buildings: The Curve, Cineleisure, and The Royale Bintang Hotel. It describes the facilities and systems used at the plant, including chillers, pumps, cooling towers, heat exchangers, and an ice storage tank. The document also summarizes the chilled water revenue from 2006 for each customer building.
The document discusses how modular data center facility modules can provide lower cost, flexible capacity and predictable efficiency compared to traditional data center designs. Modular designs use standardized building blocks that can be combined to deliver power and cooling in pre-engineered, pre-fabricated modules. This approach allows for faster deployment, easier scalability and standardization that reduces costs compared to custom designed traditional data centers. The modular approach will make traditional designs obsolete due to advantages in addressing trends like increasing energy costs, dynamic IT loads and tighter regulations.
The document discusses district cooling systems, including how they work by producing chilled water at a central plant and distributing it via underground pipes to multiple buildings for air conditioning, the components of district cooling systems such as the central chiller plant, distribution network, and user stations, and examples of district cooling systems used in Malaysia.
Schneider Alex Kretschmer Presentation Deck Facility Modules Nyc Sept 2011wlambert_2001
1) Modular data center facility modules provide standardized, pre-engineered power and cooling systems in packages like containers or skids.
2) This approach offers benefits like faster deployment, flexibility to scale over time, lower costs, and easier operation and maintenance compared to traditional customized designs.
3) Key advantages include maximizing free cooling through optimized economizer modes, adapting quickly to changing IT loads, spreading control system costs, and reducing risks from human errors during maintenance.
Schneider Alex Kretschmer Presentation Deck Facility Modules Nyc Sept 2011wlambert_2001
1) Modular data center facility modules provide standardized, pre-engineered power and cooling systems in packages like containers or skids.
2) This approach offers benefits like faster deployment, flexibility to scale over time, lower costs, and easier operation and maintenance compared to traditional customized designs.
3) Key advantages include improved utilization of economizer modes for free cooling, dynamic responsiveness to changes in IT power usage, and lower costs through standardized control systems across deployments.
One of our most popular webinar presentations on data center cooling: 2007 Data Center Cooling Study: Comparing Conventional Raised Floors with Close Coupled Cooling Technology.
If you're looking for a solution, it's simple physics: Water is 3,500 times more effective at cooling than air. But, liquid cooling carries a large stigma particularly because of the large price tag. And, if you're like other Data Center Managers, the words of Jerry McGuire may be ringing in your head "Show me the money!"
To view the recorded webinar presentation, please visit http://www.42u.com/data-center-liquid-cooling-webinar.htm
David Bahniuk is a mechanical engineer who has worked on several large-scale HVAC and mechanical projects for historical buildings. The document describes a proposed project for Rockwool International involving installing an absorption chiller system to provide air conditioning for a manufacturing facility using waste heat from a furnace. It compares the absorption chiller option to using traditional air-cooled chillers, finding that the absorption system would significantly reduce energy costs while providing sufficient cooling capacity. The installed system ended up using a 750-ton chiller instead of the proposed absorption system due to budget cuts, but was still designed to accommodate future absorption cooling.
cooling system in computer -air / water coolingIbrahem Batta
This document discusses different cooling techniques for electronic devices, including air cooling, liquid cooling, and their components. It provides details on heat sinks, thermal interface materials, fans, blowers, and their differences. Liquid cooling uses water to transmit heat more efficiently than air cooling due to water's higher heat capacity and conductivity. While more effective, liquid cooling systems are more expensive, larger, require technical skills, and carry safety risks if leaked.
The document discusses Deep FreezeTM, a next generation liquid cooling technology for blade servers. Deep FreezeTM uses ionized water circulating through a chassis-based heat sink as a closed-loop system. This allows it to efficiently cool blade servers within the chassis in a self-contained manner, without mixing hot and cold air or requiring complex CFD analysis of airflow. Deep FreezeTM addresses increasing data center cooling challenges and offers benefits like reduced maintenance costs and increased computing efficiency over traditional air-cooling methods. It represents the most efficient blade server cooling design currently available.
Cold/Hot Pool Solutions for DC provides solutions to address increasing heat loads from servers using cold aisle/hot aisle containment strategies. It discusses challenges with traditional cooling methods and how cold aisle containment isolates cold air to better cool servers without mixing with hot air. Hot aisle containment similarly isolates hot air exhaust. These solutions reduce cooling costs by lowering temperature needs and energy consumption compared to traditional methods. Intelligent airflow control methods are also proposed to more efficiently cool server racks based on varying load conditions.
In hot climates such as the Gulf Cooperating Council (GCC) region, the cooling systems demand represents approximately 50% and up to 70% of total and peak electricity consumptions, respectively. In Iraq cooling shares about 75% of the electricity consumption.
The document discusses district cooling systems (DCS), including:
1. DCS involve centralized chilled water production and distribution to multiple buildings through underground pipes for air conditioning. This is more efficient than individual building chillers.
2. Examples of DCS in Malaysia include serving Kuala Lumpur International Airport since 1997 and government buildings in Putrajaya since 1999.
3. The Bangsar DCS in Kuala Lumpur uses thermal energy storage at night to take advantage of lower electricity rates, supplying hotels, offices and other buildings during the day.
Data center sustainability mission critical may june 2018Daren Klum
Total immersion liquid cooling is a technology where all electronics are submerged in a dielectric fluid that conducts heat but not electricity. It provides several advantages over traditional air cooling systems like eliminating fans, reducing thermal fluctuations, and lowering CPU temperatures. While it is the most efficient way to dissipate heat, liquid cooling has been slow to adopt due to the large investment required to redesign data center infrastructure, though some approaches have faced issues with cost, maintenance, and scalability. As cloud operators focus more on operational efficiency and reducing energy usage and waste, total immersion liquid cooling may become a more viable option.
Setty & Associates International is an engineering firm established in 2002 with 47 members specializing in mechanical, electrical, and other engineering disciplines. The document discusses and compares three options for mechanical systems for a building: self-contained roof top units, a chiller/boiler with air handling units, and a variable refrigerant flow system. Each option is described in one or two sentences.
The document discusses LISP (Locator/ID Separation Protocol), which was developed by Cisco to address scalability issues facing the Internet. LISP solves these issues by separating a host's identifier (EID) from its locator (RLOC) using an encapsulation scheme and mapping system. This allows routing scalability by removing most host routes from the global routing system and storing them in a distributed database. The document outlines LISP's control and data plane operations, use cases, and Cisco's involvement in developing and standardizing the protocol.
This document discusses the transition to IP/MPLS in mobile backhaul networks. As networks evolve to support 4G/LTE, MPLS provides a unified solution for transporting various technologies like legacy TDM/ATM, Ethernet, and IP. MPLS enables features like scalability, reliability, manageability, traffic engineering, and quality of service required by mobile backhaul. The transition involves migrating networks to MPLS in phases, starting with aggregation and eventually supporting all technologies over a common MPLS infrastructure.
This document provides an introduction to RINA and discusses problems with the current Internet architecture. It argues that much of what is believed about the Internet is myth rather than reality. The Internet is facing severe problems like poor security, inefficient routing, and lack of mobility and quality of service support. Additionally, the document claims guiding principles for future Internet design are not very helpful. It asserts that networking is fundamentally about inter-process communication and the answer to improving Internet architecture has been clear since the mid-1990s.
This document summarizes the evolution of wireless technologies from 0G to 4G and highlights some of the key challenges of 3G/4G networks. It shows how data rates have doubled every year, driving the transition from narrowband to broadband networks. While 3G deployments are maturing, 4G/LTE rollouts are just beginning. This is fueling a massive growth in mobile data traffic and creating challenges around traffic management, mobile backhaul capacity, and complex new network architectures.
Packet Design introduces route analytics technology to help manage complex IP networks during the IPv4 to IPv6 transition. Route analytics passively monitors routing protocols to create an accurate model of the network topology and application traffic paths. It helps troubleshoot issues, plan network changes like enabling IPv6, and ensure IPv6 prefixes are routed properly. Route analytics also provides real-time and historical views of network routing with the ability to simulate and model routing changes. This helps engineers more accurately manage the IPv6 transition.
The document discusses a presentation about preparing for the next generation internet (IPv6). It outlines that the presentation will cover what factors determine an organization's timeline for adopting IPv6, how the new protocol impacts businesses, and whether they are ready for the transition. Key areas that will be assessed include service providers' IPv6 capabilities, network infrastructure, operating systems, and application development. Attendees will learn how to evaluate their network and technology readiness for the new protocol.
Carrier Ethernet services provide businesses with standardized, carrier-class Ethernet connectivity and networking capabilities. They address the need for consistent application performance, accessibility, and expense predictability. Carrier Ethernet uses Ethernet technology and protocols to deliver services at wide area scales beyond 10Gbps. Popular service types include E-Line, E-LAN, VPLS, and IP VPNs. Level 3 provides nationwide and international carrier Ethernet networks and services.
This document discusses Ethernet OAM and lessons learned from interoperability testing. Key points include:
- Standards exist for Ethernet OAM fault and performance management, but differences between IEEE and ITU-T standards prevent full interoperability.
- Testing through the Verizon Interoperability Forum revealed implementation challenges across vendors in areas like naming, link trace, and performance monitoring support.
- Managing OAM across networks is complex due to the need to provision monitoring points and reactions to faults on a service-specific basis across multiple network elements.
- Notifying customers of faults requires supporting either AIS or E-LMI asynchronous status messages depending on customer equipment capabilities.
- Continued development is
The document proposes a solution for scaling LDP-based pseudowire (PW) services across multiple regions. It uses LDP signaling for setting up intra-region PWs and BGP for inter-region stitching and routing. The solution allows PW services to extend across autonomous systems and areas without requiring protocols like BGP on terminating provider edges (T-PEs). Provisioning and signaling are simplified through the use of attachment identifiers and route targets. Existing T-PE capabilities are largely reused through minor extensions to FEC-128/129 signaling over LDP. BGP routing between switching provider edges (S-PEs) avoids a full mesh of LDP sessions to improve scaling as the number of T-
This document discusses using label switched multicast (LSM) for optimized video delivery over MPLS networks. It covers market trends in video, types of video, video delivery architectures, and an overview of label switched multicast using RSVP-TE and mLDP signaling. Examples applications of LSM for video contribution, primary distribution, and enterprise distribution are provided. The document concludes that MPLS networks are increasingly being used for different types of video delivery and that LSM can optimize this delivery through applications tailored to specific video use cases and requirements.
This document discusses automation of next generation networks (NGNs) to deliver multicast services. It covers planning issues for deploying multicast across inter-domain networks, including using path computation elements (PCEs) and hierarchical PCEs. Extensions to RSVP signaling are presented as a solution for point-to-multipoint transport across domains. The use of PCEs can offload complex path computations and consider constraints to efficiently deliver services using multicast trees.
This document discusses how virtualization can provide the foundation for a green IT business case in a data center. It summarizes trends in server and desktop virtualization adoption. It also discusses challenges related to power usage and cooling in data centers. The document then models how virtualization can reduce capital and operational costs through lower hardware, power, and cooling needs. It shows how these savings can provide a strong ROI, especially as virtualization maturity increases. It concludes that virtualization is a key way to reduce energy usage and improve sustainability in a data center.
This document discusses greening data center operations through reducing dedicated resources, infrastructure overhead, and costs while improving security, reliability, and sustainability. It promotes Verne Global's data centers in Iceland, which leverage 100% renewable energy sources, free cooling, and a modular design to deliver efficient, eco-friendly infrastructure as a service to customers. Verne Global aims to establish a healthy balance between IT needs and environmental impact through their sustainable data center solutions.
1) The document proposes an adaptive-mesh grid network of 5 data centers powered by solar, wind, and geothermal sources located around the world to provide continuous network access and data center services.
2) 4 data centers would operate on 6-hour shifts based on their local time zones during peak usage hours, while 1 data center remains always-on.
3) The network uses wavelength division multiplexing on fiber optic rings to dynamically allocate bandwidth between data centers as needed, reducing network capacity costs significantly compared to conventional network designs.
This document discusses the growing importance of measuring the energy efficiency of networking devices. As data and network traffic increases, the energy and cooling costs associated with powering network infrastructure is becoming a significant operational expense for network operators. Standards organizations have begun developing methods to measure and report the energy consumption and efficiency of networking equipment in order to drive the industry toward more eco-friendly solutions. Ixia has introduced a solution called IxGreen that allows for automated, real-world testing of networking devices' energy efficiency ratings.
The document discusses the growing issue of power management in data centers, noting that energy costs are the fastest growing expense and many data centers will soon run out of power capacity. It explains that while IT infrastructure has become more dynamic, facilities have remained static, creating a large gap between power consumption and delivery. The document argues that in order to address this challenge, CIOs must be given power budgets and power must be measured at the equipment level to incentivize changes and connect power usage to business needs.
This document discusses securing the smart grid through an RSA approach. It begins by introducing Sam Curry, the Chief Technology Officer of RSA, The Security Division of EMC. It then discusses some of the challenges utilities are facing in implementing smart grid technologies, including pressure to roll out new infrastructure quickly. The document outlines how the traditional energy grid lacks communication capabilities and visibility compared to a smart grid. It proposes that RSA can provide solutions for encrypting data, managing keys, controlling access to systems, collecting security information, and managing incidents to help secure the smart grid in an end-to-end manner. Finally, it suggests that EMC has capabilities across the smart grid stack from physical security to consulting that can also help utilities address security
The document discusses the views of a cynic on smart grids. It summarizes that smart grids involve completely redesigning the communications networks that control and deliver electric power to form a resilient network like the Internet. However, there are still many open issues regarding standards, integrating renewable energy, consumer costs and willingness to accept time-of-use pricing, and challenges in home energy management. Overall, while the goals of smart grids are important, the cynic believes there are still major technical, economic and regulatory hurdles to widespread implementation.
The document discusses opportunities for reducing power consumption in broadband networks. It finds that the biggest potential lies in simplifying the access layer, including the home gateway. Functions can be consolidated from the home gateway to the DSLAM or IP Edge to reduce power usage. Standardizing on open IPTV interfaces could also allow eliminating set-top boxes. Overall, rearchitecting networks with a focus on green technologies and intelligence at the Edge provides opportunities for power, capital, and operational savings.
Mobile data usage is growing exponentially as smartphones become more popular. However, most mobile data is used indoors where signal from macro cellular towers is poor. While 4G technologies can provide some improvements, the macro cellular architecture alone cannot meet long term demands. Femtocells provide a solution by creating small, low-power cellular base stations that can be installed in homes to provide dedicated indoor coverage and capacity. This improves the user experience through better signal strength and dedicated bandwidth. Femtocells also enable new applications through awareness of both mobile and home networks. However, challenges remain around interference avoidance when femtocells overlap with macro networks.