VMware: Energy efficiency starts in the cloud

Open RAN and virtualization create new challenges and opportunities to optimize energy consumption without compromising performance. To overcome the challenges and fulfill the opportunity, we need to understand traffic and energy consumption patterns and find the correlations between the two to increase efficiency.

In this conversation, Lorcan Burke, Director, EMEA Service Provider at VMware, talks about what VMware is doing to assess how networks use energy and how that impacts carbon emissions, as well as to develop strategies to optimize workload management and reduce energy consumption.

Networks often run at full capacity to accommodate peak traffic, even though traffic is not at peak most of the time. Can we reduce energy consumption by switching off network elements we do not need?

This interview is part of the Senza Fili Deep Dive report “Energy efficiency in Wireless: RAN and beyond.” Watch or download this conversation, or read the full report for free.