Conference Proceedings

Energy consumption in access networks

J BALIGA, R AYRE, W SORIN, K HINTON, R TUCKER

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2008 | Omnipress | Published : 2008

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2010142

Abstract

We present a comparison of energy consumption of access networks. We consider passive optical networks, fiber to the node, point-to-point optical systems and WiMAX. Optical access technologies provide the most energy-efficient solutions.

University of Melbourne Researchers