TelSoc AGM and Lunchtime Lecture - presented by Rod Tucker
Energy Consumption in Data Centres and the Telecommunications Network
Tuesday, 28th November 2017
[3] This MEMBERS ONLY event incorporates a sandwich lunch, the TelSoc's Annual General Meeting and a lecture by Rod Tucker - Laureate Emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne.
The AGM will commence promptly at 12pm and needs 10% of current financial members (click-here [4] to join now) in attendance for a meeting quorum. If you can't attend please nominate your proxy (eg. a fellow member or the president / chair of the meeting). Also, if you wish to nominate to become a TelSoc board member use the board nomination form. The list of 2017 Board nominations is on the TelSoc website.
All the relevant AGM links are in the following table. Note, you MUST be logged in and a current paid financial member to be able to view the respective details:
| To nominate an AGM proxy: | https://telsoc.org/nomination_form/nomination_proxy_telsoc_agm_2017 [5] |
| To nominate for the 2017 TelSoc Board: | https://telsoc.org/nomination_form/board_member_nomination_form_2017 [6] |
| To view the 2017 TelSoc Board Nominations list: | https://telsoc.org/agm-2017-nominations [7] |
| To join the TelSoc: | http://telsoc.org/membership [4] |
About Rod Tucker's presentation:
Data centre architects and network engineers are making great strides in improving the energy efficiency of the hardware and software that underpins the Internet. However, rapid increases in the volume of data processed in data centres and distributed around the globe have largely negated these gains in energy efficiency. The telecommunications sector today ranks among one of the most energy-hungry industries.
In this talk, Rod will present a tally of energy consumption in the global telecommunications network and its associated data centres. I will speculate on trends into the 2020s and provide a high-level overview of some current research efforts aimed at stabilizing or even reducing the energy consumption of the network.
Date and Time
Tue, 28 Nov 2017
12:00 - 14:00 AEDT
Location
Presenter(s)
Rod Tucker is Laureate Emeritus Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He has previously held positions at Plessey Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, and Agilent Technologies. In 2009, he served on the Federal Government?s Panel of Experts that provided advice on the National Broadband Network.
Rod is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Chair of the Academy?s National Committee for Information and Communication Sciences. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and the Optical Society of America. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE. In 1997, he was awarded the Australia Prize for his contributions to telecommunications, and in 2007 he received the IEEE LEOS Aron Kressel Award for his contributions to Semiconductor Lasers.