On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Shane Amante <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Thus, the only practical application I can see of power savings would be > on copper interfaces at the deepest "edge" of the network, (U-PE to CE), > but there's no active routing protocols on those interfaces. And, although > there's Layer-2 control protocols, e.g.: LLDP and the MEF's "Ethernet LMI", > but I've not seen either of those achieve widespread deployment mostly > because the CE devices do not support it, (yet). But, we're the IETF, not > the IEEE nor the MEF ... so, I'm not clear what the IETF would be able to > work on here. Now that you mention it, datacenter or campus LANs would appear to be the biggest wins in terms of power and raw numbers of interfaces. IEEE seems like a better match in that case. No idea if there are things going on in that venue. Tony
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