Re: Greening of Streaming

On 29/09/2023 09:41, Dom Robinson wrote:
> We are seeing no evidence that not sending data reduces energy 
> consumption. We have been measuring events like the world cup streaming 
> online and more, and network energy is not related to traffic, it is 
> related to the peak provisioned capacity of the network. Much looks to 
> be similar in cloud.
> 

I think that is generally true of communication networks. Much of the 
cost is  capacity related.  In fact, for the traditional phone network, 
the main operating costs may well be billing.

However, whilst the marginal load of a single site may have negligible 
impact on energy consumption, in the communications network, the 
combined effect is to require more infrastructure and therefore more 
energy consumption, in the long term, both embedded and operational.

Also, I think that server energy use will depend on work loads, or at 
least should do with good designs.

Received on Friday, 29 September 2023 11:33:07 UTC