Introduction

Network Power Zoo is a public database that aggregates multiple types of power data for wired networking hardware (routers, switches, transceivers, ...). The database was built with modularity in mind and is open for data contribution from the community. It is intended as a resource for analyzing and improving energy efficiencies of network devices and infrastructures.

The database currently contains currated collections of

router datasheet informations related to power
time series of live power measurement data from production routers
router power model parameters, following the methodology introduced in our IMC'25 paper.

For more details about the data types and format, refer to the Data page. The data is available via the Download page.

Citing

The dataset was introduced in Fantastic Joules and Where to Find Them. Modeling and Optimizing Router Energy Demand. If you are using the database in published work, please cite it using the paper as reference:

@inproceedings{jacob2025Fantastic,
  title = {Fantastic Joules and Where to Find Them. Modeling and Optimizing Router Energy Demand},
  booktitle = {25th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2025)},
  author = {Jacob, Romain and R{\"o}llin, Lukas and Lim, Jackie and Chung, Jonathan and 
  B{\'e}hanzin, Maurice and Wang, Weiran and Hunziker, Andreas and Moroianu, Theodor and 
  Tabaeiaghdaei, Seyedali and Perrig, Adrian and Vanbever, Laurent},
  year = 2025,
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.1145/3730567.3732920},
  url = {https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/728960},
  urldate = {2025-07-02},
  copyright = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
  isbn = {979-8-4007-1860-1},
  langid = {english},
  rights = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/}
}

Maintainers

The project is maintained by the Network Systems Group at ETH Zurich.

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