Panel: going green across communications and storage systems: control of power in non-mobile devices

There is a growing need to reduce device power to meet environmental, thermal, packaging, operating cost and other constraints in enterprise and carrier class applications. These pressures affect all levels of design targeted towards non-mobile applications: in the data center and its cloud, in the corporate enterprise - storage and WAN, in servers and embedded processing platforms, and in telecom wired transport and wireless backhaul networks.

How will overall energy consumption be reduced with our fast-increasing need for compute power, capacity and performance? How can these trends be tamed with tomorrow's technologies and architectures? What can be leveraged from current sophisticated power reduction technologies in the mobile and multi-core processor domains? And who will look at the big picture of consumption?

Power reduction and hence energy savings have become primary objectives for device suppliers responding to end-customer requirements. Standards such as Greentouch, Open Compute Project and several others have been created for disruption of business-as-usual. This Panel will focus on power management and control of plugged-in (non-mobile) systems and devices for process technologies at 40nm and below. It will also discuss the use of USB, POE and other alternative power sources for low power devices in challenging environments.