With the United States of America’s ever-mounting trade and budget deficits, unemployment above 10 percent (and, dependent on counting, un- and under-employment above 20 percent), looming peak oil and other resource (water, for example) limitations, environmental challenges, and ever-mounting climate chaos , America faces a very serious situation.

Extreme Networks (News - Alert), a provider of converged Ethernet networks that support data, voice and video for enterprises and service providers, have remodeled their Summit X650 10GBASE-T data center switch to be more greener and power efficient so that the datacenters deploying them can save power by 30 percent.

According to company officials, the company’s Summit X650 series switch is a purpose-built Top-of-Rack switch designed for emerging 10 Gigabit Ethernet-enabled servers deployed in enterprise data centers.

Leading competition for environmental start-ups awards company with a platform for maintaining desired home temperature more efficiently.