NEW DELHI, INDIA: Extreme Networks announced that its Go Green network solutions can help reduce the carbon footprint of enterprise businesses by dramatically reducing electricity usage of network connected devices, including IP phones, resulting in potential energy savings between 50 and 75 percent compared to current solutions.

The new solution, built with Extreme Networks' ExtremeXOS Universal Port Automation software, features the intelligence to automatically power down connected IP phones when they are not in use. This solution offers the potential for significant cost and environmental savings.

"Enterprise organizations are looking to reduce their carbon footprint, and the Go Green solution from Extreme Networks is a unique and key component in managing the edge of the network," said Phillip Park, vice president of Asia-Pacific for Extreme Networks, Inc.  "Through the automated power-down of a set of connected IP phones that would not be in use at night or weekends by employees or students anyway, organizations can save both energy and money."

Extreme Networks Go Green solution is easy to manage and provides the speeds required by today's bandwidth intensive users. Once the edge policies have been created and the power saving criteria chosen, the ExtremeXOS Universal Port Automation powers off the IP handsets or other connected devices, such as IP cameras or 802.11 based Wireless LAN Access Points (APs), outside of these time boundaries, resulting in power savings on both the switch ports and the phones themselves.

For a typical company with 200 non-essential IP phones that are powered down outside of normal office hours by the Go Green solution between 5:00 pm each evening and restarting at 9:00 am each morning, there can be a 75 percent reduction in costs associated with running network connected IP phones.