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Eight HP ProCurve switches ‘Certified Green’ by Miercom
Miercom, an independent testing lab, has given its Certified Green award to eight HP ProCurve Networking switches – finding they significantly outperformed the networking industry in energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. Miercom said ProCurve switches “proved in testing and by analysis to afford customers a switching solution with superior value, effectiveness and energy efficiency.”
To meet Miercom’s stringent Certified Green criteria, ProCurve products had to be in the top 30 percent of the industry for energy efficiency and pass a thorough audit of “green” best practices. The program rates networking equipment based on several criteria – such as power efficiency, heat dissipation, cooling requirements, energy efficiency and overall product efficiency.
Miercom found all eight outperformed the industry, saying: “HP’s technology and its holistic approach to reduce environmental impact helps its customers to significantly improve their ROI (return on investment).” The HP ProCurve switches included a variety of chassis and fixed-port products.
“HP designs the ProCurve switches with exceptional flexibility to allow for upgrading the switches and builds in additional features to future-proof the family of switches,” Miercom said. “This well-engineered focus supports HP’s offer of a lifetime warranty, assurance of product longevity by reducing e-waste and service costs, and extending the useful life of networking investments. In the unlikely event the product cannot be redeployed, the innovative HP product design allows product components to be effectively recycled.”
The eight ProCurve switches Certified Green and what Miercom said about them (in order of projected cost savings):
Can provide the consumer with a cost savings up to 45 percent. Key findings:
- Energy-efficient design with hot-swappable, internal and external redundant power supplies and fan module; upgradeable.
- Remote administration and management on a per-port basis reduces power consumption and energy cost.
- Distributed computing architecture enables power consumption to be optimized to scale, with the size of switch deployment.
- Innovative design enables operation in environments up to 55ºC or 131ºF – reduces need for external cooling.
Can provide the consumer with a cost savings up to 38 percent. Key findings:
- Advanced port monitoring and security initializes detection and mitigation; secures network integrity.
- Energy-efficient design with variable speed cooling fans; allows efficient cooling.
- Remote administration and management on a per port basis, enables reduction in power consumption and energy cost.
- Innovative design employed in environments up to 50ºC or 122º F – reduces need for external cooling.
Ideal for businesses looking for high performance, scalable solutions for building converged networks for deployment at enterprise/business network edge or remote branch offices.
- Energy-efficient design with hot-swappable, internal and external redundant power supplies and fan module; upgradeable.
- Distributed computing architecture enables power consumption to be optimized to scale with the size of switch deployment.
- Remote administration and management on a per-port basis reduces power consumption and energy cost.
Can provide the consumer with a cost savings up to 24 percent.
- Offers advanced security and switch network management tools.
- Provides automatic error detection, remediation and notification.
- Energy-efficient design with dual-speed cooling fans; allows efficient cooling.
- Innovative design employed in environments up to 45ºC or 113º F – reduces need for external cooling.
Can provide the consumer with a cost savings of up to 23 percent.
- Offers advanced security and switch network management tools.
- Provides automatic error detection, remediation and notification.
- Energy-efficient design with variable speed cooling fans; allows efficient cooling.
- Remote administration and management on a per-port basis, enables reduction in power consumption and energy cost.
- Components designed for operating in temperatures up to 55ºC or 131º F – reduces need for external cooling
Can provide the consumer with a cost savings up to 23 percent. Key findings:
- Remote administration and management on a per-port basis reduces power consumption and energy cost.
- Energy efficient design with external power supply supports two modules for redundancy and power to PoE.
- Innovative design employed in environments up to 55ºC or 131º F – reduces need for external cooling.
- Distributed computing architecture enables power consumption to be optimized to scale
Can provide the consumer with a cost savings up to 5 percent. Key findings:
- Cutting-edge design with front-to-back, reversible airflow, hot and cold aisle configuration; delivers cost-effective data center management
- Energy-efficient design with hot swappable redundant internal power supplies and fan module; upgradeable.
- Advanced security features with enhanced switch management and port monitoring capability.
- Common spare design; all power supplies, fan trays and transceivers are interchangeable for the 6600 switch series.
Can provide the consumer with a cost savings up to 5 percent. Key findings:
- Cutting-edge design with front-to-back, reversible airflow, hot and cold aisle configuration; delivers cost-effective data center management.
- Energy-efficient design with hot-swappable redundant internal power supplies and fan module; upgradeable.
- Advanced security features with enhanced switch management and port monitoring capability.
- Common spare design; all power supplies, fan trays and transceivers are interchangeable for the 6600 switch series.
The Miercom certification emulates real-world data center applications, testing several application profiles to determine benchmarks related to performance and power. Tests involved measuring the power consumption of products at different packet sizes, under various loading conditions, and with or without Power over Ethernet (PoE).
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