On June 15, 2010, Japanese newspaper “KAGAKU KOGYO NIPPO” picked up the start of producting the next generation green network switch.

To reduce the energy consumption in the IP and Ethernet transport network, Yamanaka Lab. focuses on a new traffic engineering approach aggregating traffic into specific links and dynamically powering off interfaces of routers/switches. This framework is named as “MiDORi (Multi-(layer, path, and resources) Dynamically Optimized Routing) Network Technologies”. “midori” is a Japanese word which means “green” in English.
As one of key components for MiDORi Technologies, Yamanaka Lab. and Allgreen Networks company developed the next generation green network switch. Allgreen Networks company has started to product this switch as “Gigabit Green(ECO) Layer-2 Switch”.

•  KAGAKU KOGYO NIPPO (June 15, 2010, page 10) [Japanese]
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