World's communications network due an energy diet

World's communications network due an energy diet: "The Internet and other communications networks could use one-ten-thousandth of the energy that they do today if smarter data-coding techniques were used to move information around, say Bell Labs researchers, who have launched a consortium of networking and computing firms called Green Touch that is committed to developing new power-saving technologies.

(Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18377-worlds-communications-network-due-an-energy-diet.html)"

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