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Some Areas of Interest

Power

Goals and Objectives

The goal of this research area is to further the energy efficiency of network devices as well as use the network to coordinate sensing and control of energy consumption using the network infrastructure.

Innovation on Power at Cisco

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Overview

The world is shifting towards sustainability and energy efficiency. With the rise of green initiatives and carbon emission credits, markets and regulations are the first steps in a potentially massive shift in the world economy.

In recognition of these new requirements on and by governments, companies, and individual consumers, research is needed to enhance the efficiency of hardware components as well as their device-level integration, from systems power management to high-level power savings integration, and future paradigms for power efficiency in networking. We seek to catalyze creative power efficiency designs that can be enabled by the networks.

Hardware area


  • ASIC low power design
  • Low power processors

RFP: Low power hardware

System low power design


  • Architectures for low power
  • Algorithms
  • Protocols
  • Optimizations

RFP: System low power design

Power Management


  • Data Center
  • Enterprise
  • Building
  • Home
  • Service providers
  • Local Government (Towns and Cities)

RFP: Power Management

Sensors for power


  • Cost effective network enabled sensors
  • Sensor networks including enabling network communication of existing sensors
  • Network-based correlation of sensor inputs into control system responses

RFP: Sensors for power

Sustainability


RFP: Sustainability

If your research topic doesn't directly address any of the proposed RFPs please submit it as a generic proposal for this area.

If you have comments, questions or feedbacks related to this area please don’t hesitate to contact us at research-power@cisco.com

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