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Network Sustainability Analytics Overview

As networks scale up exponentially to meet the rising bandwidth demands, energy consumption also goes up at a similar pace, substantially increasing the power required to run the networks uninterrupted. This leads to higher operational costs for organizations and contributes to a growing global carbon footprint.

Traditional network infrastructures often operate on an “always-on” model, where devices and components continue to consume power even during periods of low or no utilization. This results in inefficient energy usage and unnecessary costs.

In addition, limited visibility into real-time energy consumption and emission data makes it difficult for organizations to effectively monitor usage, identify inefficiencies, and align with sustainability goals.

To address these challenges, Data Center Assurance provides the Network Sustainability Analytics feature that enables organizations to monitor, analyze, report, plan, and optimize energy consumption across their network infrastructure.

The Network Sustainability Analytics feature in Data Center Assurance provides the following capabilities:

Key Capabilities

  • Observability

    Gain end-to-end visibility into energy consumption and thermal behavior across your network infrastructure. The Sustainability dashboards enable you to:

    • Monitor energy consumption and thermal profiles at organization, site, and device levels.
    • Track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and power costs.
    • Identify top power-consuming sites, devices, and components.
    • Analyze utilization trends and identify idle or underutilized resources.

    See, Understanding the Organization-Level Sustainability Dashboard, Understanding the Site-Level Sustainability Dashboard, Understanding the Device-Level Sustainability Dashboard.

  • Sustainability Insights and Forecasting Report

    Provides AI-generated sustainability reports and forecasts that help organizations understand historical trends, predict future energy requirements, and support sustainability planning and compliance initiatives.

    • Forecast future energy requirements, operational costs, and GHG emissions.
    • Analyze utilization and sustainability trends over time.
    • Support capacity planning, budgeting, and infrastructure investment decisions.
    • Generate reports and insights to support SBTi and sustainability compliance requirements.

    See, Review the Sustainability Report.

  • Sustainability Planning

    Define, manage, and track progress toward organizational sustainability goals.

    • Establish measurable sustainability targets.
    • Monitor progress against defined goals through the Sustainability Planning dashboard.
    • Measure outcomes using forecasting, optimization insights, and achieved savings.
    • Align network operations with sustainability strategies and compliance requirements.

    See, Define and Achieve Your Sustainability Goals.

  • Energy Optimization Recommendations

    Reduce energy consumption by transitioning from an “always-on” model to an “on-demand” network model.

    • Receive intelligent recommendations to shut down unused or underutilized resources.
    • Optimize energy usage without affecting network performance.
    • Prioritize recommendations based on potential energy, cost, and emissions savings.
    • Apply supported energy optimization recommendations at the device, site, or organization level with a single click.

    See, About the Recommendation Tab.

  • Potential and Achieved Energy Savings

    Measure the effectiveness of energy optimization actions.

    • Compare potential and achieved reductions in energy consumption.
    • Evaluate savings in operational costs and GHG emissions.
    • Validate the impact of optimization actions before and after implementation.
    See, View Energy Savings For the Organization and About the Energy Savings Tab.

  • Marvis AI-Powered Sustainability Assistant

    Use natural language to analyze sustainability data without manually navigating dashboards.

    • Ask sustainability-related questions across organization, site, and device scopes.
    • Receive contextual insights, forecasts, recommendations, and reporting information.
    • Automate the review and correlation of metrics across multiple sustainability views.

    See, Analyze Sustainability Data With Marvis AI Assistant.

  • API Support

    Use the Network Sustainability Analytics APIs to programmatically access sustainability data, configure supported settings, and integrate sustainability data into external systems and workflows.

See, Network Sustainability Analytics: API Endpoints and Parameters.

Accessing Network Sustainability Analytics

The Data Center Assurance dashboard provides a high-level view of the sustainability analytics for the entire organization.

To view detailed sustainability analytics for the organization, site, or device, click Sustainability from the main menu and select the organization, site, or device using the scope selector.

To ensure accurate sustainability analytics, configure accurate sustainability settings, such as power cost, carbon intensity, and the port threshold values at the time of onboarding.

Benefits of Using the Network Sustainability Analytics Feature

  • Gain detailed insights into sustainability metrics across organization, site, and device levels

  • Support data-driven sustainability planning and compliance reporting

  • Compare potential and achieved reduction in energy consumption, power cost, and emissions across organization, site, and device levels.

  • Automate recommendation deployment at scale.

  • Forecast the energy optimization potential of your network infrastructure to support budgeting and planning

  • Use Marvis to simplify reviewing dashboards and correlating metrics across multiple views.

  • Reduce energy consumption by applying optimization recommendations at scale.

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