This green IT trend shows no signs of slowing down and having already spread to the desktop and the data center, there are few places left to go aside from the network. To that end, D-Link has announced a line of green networking gear that will kick off with the DGS-2200 series multi-port desktop switches. What makes these switches green? In brief, power consumption. D-Link claims that the DGS-2200 series sips as much as 45 percent less power than similar, non-green switches. That's good news for the green-friendly enterprise, especially since there's even more green Ethernet gear on the horizon: D-Link plans to launch energy-efficient 16 and 24-port high performance rack mountable switches next month. 

For more on the new kit:
- see this article [1] from GoodCleanTech