TREND towards more energy-efficient optical networks

• Published in: 2013 17th International Conference on Optical Networking Design and Modeling (ONDM) pp. 211 - 216
• Main Authors: Le Rouzic, E., Bonetto, E., Chiaraviglio, L., Giroire, F., Idzikowski, F., Jimenez, F., Lange, C., Montalvo, J., Musumeci, F., Tahiri, I., Valenti, A., Van Heddeghem, W., Yabin Ye, Bianco, A., Pattavina, A.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-04-2013
• Subjects: Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; IP networks; optical access networks; optical core networks; Optical fiber communication; Passive optical networks; Power demand
• ISBN: 9781479904914; 1479904910

With one third of the world population online in 2013 and an international Internet bandwidth multiplied by more than eight since 2006, the ICT sector is a non-negligible contributor of worldwide greenhouse gases emissions and power consumption. Indeed, power consumption of telecommunication networks has become a major concern for all the actors of the domain, and efforts are made to reduce their impact on the overall figure of ICTs, and to support its foreseen growth in a sustainable way. In this context, the contributors of the European Network of Excellence TREND have developed innovative solutions to improve the energy efficiency of networks. This paper gives an overview of the solutions related to optical networks.