Patent ID: 9596092
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: H04L,Y02D

Claim:
1. An apparatus comprising: a device module that determines one or more non-critical devices of a plurality of devices of a software defined network, wherein a non-critical device is determined based on one or more network characteristics of the device; a usage module that receives a bandwidth utilization for each of the one or more non-critical devices, the bandwidth utilization comprising an amount of network traffic associated with a non-critical device; a threshold module that sets a threshold bandwidth for one or more of a portion of the software defined network and each device of the plurality of devices of the software defined network; and a power module that shuts down at least a portion of the software defined network comprising the one or more non-critical devices in response to the bandwidth utilizations for the one or more non-critical devices being less than the threshold bandwidth, wherein the power module shuts down the at least a portion of the network by shutting down one of a non-critical device and a power supply for a non-critical device.