Thanks for the tag @DarrenOC! 🙂
@RaphaelL I'm happy to support a conversation here, no costs involved as it's just an area I'm passionate about and keen to support others to drive an environmental impact change. This is a topic ('sustainable networking') and R&D space that my dev team and I have been driving hard focus on for coming up to 4 years and developed productised Meraki API integrated solutions to make the process easy with a focus on four use cases, but also plugging gaps in the Meraki platform (and anomalies in usage data) to enable better support with automated energy management and reporting.
I agree with you both, from the analysis of nearly 400 customer network environments that one of our platforms reports on every 24 hours shows a clear trend regarding ports utilisation, nearly all have at least 1/3 to 2/3 of an underutilised Campus/Branch environment, some into the 10's thousands of switchports, but its great to see many starting to make changes by using the data we provide at no cost so they can make informed rationalisation/consolidation decisions, like the below from a popular global brand across thier offices over the past few months - removing 1,000+ unused ports...
On powering down PoE devices, I did an exciting post on this on Friday below, we are powering down over 10,000 PoE devices each night which is saving close to 200,000 kWh this year.
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Below is a collection of different content pieces from this past year that I’ve either done with Cisco Marketing or authored.
Cisco joint collaborations over the last 12 months in the Cisco ‘sustainable networking’ space:
- Wrexham Council - Rethinking IT infrastructure to reduce cost and carbon emissions across 70 schools
- Cambridgeshire County Council / ICT Service - Cisco partners with Cambridgeshire schools to make their classrooms more sustainable
- Cisco ISG Schools Sustainability webinar with IT Leader from Wrexham Council: ‘Helping schools achieve their sustainability goals and save money, with Cisco Meraki’.
My content:
- WiserWatts solution overview
- Short Whitepaper for the Education Sector - ‘Policy-driven energy management for sustainable schools: How to reduce energy waste in your school or college.’
- 5 carbon-reduction tips for a sustainable and efficient workplace
- Smart strategies to cut business running costs and streamline your operations
- Short Whitepaper: 'Moving away from an always on culture'
- Achieving Digital Transformation and sustainability goals simultaneously
- A conversation with Simon Billington the ICT and Infrastructure Manager, Wrexham Council
- Greening ICT - Lets Go Zero Webinar – The ICT Service, Cisco and CAE
Hope this helps! 🙂
