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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Carlos Pignataro, Cary, NC (US);
Eric A. Voit, Bethesda, MD (US);
Nagendra Kumar Nainar, Morrisville, NC (US);
Marcelo Yannuzzi, Nuvilly, CH;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Energy-aware configurations can be utilized to operate a network based on sustainability-related metrics. In many embodiments, a suitable device includes a processor, a memory commutatively coupled to the processor, a plurality of elements, a communication port, and an energy-aware topology logic configured to collect topology data from one or more network devices, wherein each of the one or more network devices include a plurality of elements. The energy-aware topology logic can receive power source data and power usage data related to plurality of elements and generate an element energy coefficient (EEC) for a plurality of elements. Subsequently, the energy-aware topology logic can also generate an energy-aware configuration for at least one of the one or more network devices, and then pass the generated energy-aware configuration to the at least one network device, wherein the energy-aware configuration is configured to steer traffic based on at least one sustainability-related metric.