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Article: D-Link DGS-1248T.
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- February 19, 2009
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Byline: Alan Stevens
D-Link DGS-1248T
A business switch able to reduce power consumption by almost 50 per cent
D-Link has been banging on about its energy saving 'Green Ethernet' technology for quite some time, but it has taken a while for it to be incorporated into products. Low-end consumer switches were the first and now it's being added to D-Link's business switches, starting with the Gigabit Web Smart Switch range.
The technology involved can cut energy consumption in several ways. For example, instead of running all the ports in a switch at full power (to cope with the maximum cable length of 100m), the amount used can be ...