Dimensioning and Energy Efficiency of Multi-Rate Metro Rings

Yvan Pointurier, Isabella Cerutti, Annie Gravey, J-C. Antona

Journal of Lightwave Technology · 2012 · 17 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

Due to the ever-growing network capacity demand, energy-efficient and scalable networking solutions are needed in all networking segments. This paper focuses on the metro segment and compares the power consumption for four different technologies: Ethernet, Reconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (ROADM), Optical Transport Networks (OTN), and an optical packet switching (OPS) solution called Packet Optical Add-Drop Multiplexers (“POADM”), which was recently proposed.

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