Nortel Buzzboard

Here on Buzzboard we’ve talked a lot about the Cisco Energy Tax and Nortel energy efficiency. Part of that conversation has been around a wonderful but hard to find little tool called the Nortel Energy Efficiency Calculator (NEEC) that allows you to compare Nortel and Cisco energy efficiency.

A star at tradeshows and customer meetings, the NEEC has been hard to bring to the masses because its original incarnation was as a very sophisticated interactive Excel spreadsheet.

Until now.

Today, Nortel announced that the NEEC is now the web-based Interactive NEEC (iNEEC of course) and available online for anyone to use. I have tried out the iNEEC myself and it’s quite a tool — allowing you to calculate potential savings based on your specific per-kilowatt-hour energy costs in 49 countries and all 50 states in the U.S. It gives you the simplicity of “auto-building” a network comparison, but the flexibility to build your own network down to the individual stackable PoE switch.

Try it and you’ll be impressed — both with the tool and with the money you can save. You can also watch the below video, where our own iNEEC expert Steve Given takes you through a guided tour of the tool.