Cisco EnergyWise enables you to measure and manage the power consumption of your Network.

Understanding and controlling energy usage is now the focus of businesses worldwide.

Everyone should be measuring their organizational power consumption and greenhouse gas emissions so that they can

• Reduce resource usage while maintaining business productivity

• Respond to green regulatory requirements

• Reduce the environmental effects of business operations

• Meet green corporate and social responsibilities

Cisco EnergyWise is an innovative architecture, added to existing Cisco Catalyst switching portfolio, promoting company wide sustainability by reducing energy consumption across an entire corporate infrastructure .

Cisco EnergyWise encompasses a highly intelligent network-based approach to communicate messages that measure and control energy between network devices and endpoints. The network discovers Cisco EnergyWise manageable devices, monitors their power consumption, and takes action based on business rules to reduce power consumption. EnergyWise uses a unique domain-naming system to query and summarize information from large sets of devices, making it simpler than traditional network management capabilities. Cisco EnergyWise’s management interfaces allow facilities and network management applications to communicate with endpoints and each other using the network as a unifying fabric. The management interface uses standard SNMP or SSL to integrate Cisco and third-party management systems