Evaluation of Power Saving and Feasibility Study of Migrations Solutions in a Virtual Router Network

Table 1

Values of power consumed by the physical router components.

	Power consumption
Chassis and route processor
Edge router	220 W
Core router	400 W
Line Cards
Fast Ethernet	26 W
OC-12 622.08 Mbps	18 W
Gigabit Ethernet	30 W
OC-48 2.488 Gbps	70 W