ECO-TAP

Partners

• Ultracell Networks Ltd 
• King’s College London 

Project Summary

ICT has a carbon footprint comparable with that of the global aviation industry. The ECO-TAP project’s vision is to improve the energy efficiency of the networks that interconnect disaggregated servers in data centres (i.e., bespoke racks of only CPUs, or memory or network interface cards) by introducing a new Hybrid Cellular-Switched Topology. Doing this will also improve the resource utilisation of servers through disaggregation. 

ECO-TAP has the following novel aspects. It will firstly develop new data centre network architectures optimised for energy efficient disaggregation of servers; (ii)develop new algorithms for the energy efficient composition of the disaggregated servers. Secondly, it will capture the key innovations in demonstrators to verify and refine the approaches. It addresses the three themes by building on our new “Processing Steering” concept introduced in DSIT ECO-RAN project thus addressing HDD environments; introducing machine learning (ML) for processing steering in RIC and introducing for the first time server disaggregation in Open RAN for processors

Professor Jaafar Elmirghani, Chair/ CTO, Ultracell Networks Ltd said: 

“Securing all this translation funding concurrently from so many leading funders is a testimony to the innovative nature of our technology and the insatiable demand that exists for it in 5G and 6G communication networks. I look forward to wider  collaboration with our end users and the entire ecosystem and to significant impact on the international market.”