TREND

The project wants to find answers to following questions:

•    What is the real power consumption of information technology?
•    Which technologies are most energy-saving?
•    Is the actual growth of telecom infrastructures enduring?
•    How can we restrict the energy consumption of data networks without negative consequences on performance?
•    What are the criteria favoring energy efficiency during network design, planning and use of the networks?
•    How can the design of existing networks be adapted in the short or long term in order to realize the largest possible energy savings?
•    Which communication and management paradigms and protocols are able to guarantee a most effective control of energy consumption?
•    Which are the most promising and durable long-term solutions for energy efficient networks and what are the strategies for reaching them?
•    What can stimulate operators, providers as well as users to maximize energy efficiency?

Collaboration

TREND is a Network of Excellence project, bringing together about seventy academic partners and five industrial partners. IBBT is responsible for mapping out the energy consumption of existing networks. Other partners work especially around access networks of the big core networks operators who take care of transporting large volumes of data. The collaboration, the publications, workshops and congresses resulting from this must ensure that the consciousness of the environmental impact of network infrastructures increases.