Enterprises of all sizes are becoming increasingly conscious of the energy consumption of their business tools, including always on devices like Layer 2-7 LAN switches. Today Tolly Common RFP releases LAN Switch Power Consumption #1080 Version 1.5 that now includes guidelines for testing layer 3 and layer 4-7 switches and will serve as the methodology for the upcoming Layer 2-7 LAN and SAN Switch Green TestFest taking place the week of August 3rd.
In the current economic environment, all areas of businesses are looking to reduce operating costs and eliminate unnecessary expenses, said Kevin Tolly, founder, president, and CEO of The
Tolly Group. With the Tolly Common RFP for LAN Switch Power Consumption, readers can become instant experts by utilizing proven methodologies and understanding in-depth elements necessary
to jumpstart their internal green initiatives.
The Tolly Common RFP for LAN Switch Power Consumption is built from leading edge testing performed by Tolly over the past two years on switches from Cisco, Extreme Networks, Foundry
(Brocade), Nortel, BLADE Network Technologies, ZyXEL Communications, NETGEAR, Linksys by Cisco and HP ProCurve.
In addition, Version 1.5 of the LAN Switch Power Consumption RFP includes integrated best practices recommendations from leading vendors such as, Spirent Communications, Ixia, 3Com,
Alcatel-Lucent and HP ProCurve.
The RFP best practices test guidelines are the basis for Tolly tests and are also being licensed to end users and networking vendor organizations worldwide to guide their own internal
testing.
About Tolly Common RFP, LLC
Common RFP, LLC is a Tolly Group business. The Tolly Group, whose 20 years of hands-on IT evaluations, along with input from vendors and users of information technology, have provided the
basis for our series of best practices guides. The Tolly Common RFP series are best practices guides for conducting IT product evaluations. The series presents a collection of detailed
test plans designed to help validate feature/function and performance characteristics of Information Technology products and solutions.
For more information on Common RFP, visit its Web site at: CommonRFP.com call +1 561.391.5610, fax +1 561.391.5810.