• DocumentCode
    3136913
  • Title

    The future Internet - An energy consumption perspective

  • Author

    Hinton, Kerry ; Baliga, Jayant ; Ayre, Robert ; Tucker, Rodney S.

  • Author_Institution
    ARC Special Res. Centre for Ultra-Broadband Inf. Networks, Univ. of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    13-17 July 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We compare the abilities of photonic and electronic technologies for improving energy efficiency of the Internet. It is not clear whether photonic signal processing technologies will provide a pathway to improving Internet energy efficiency.
  • Keywords
    Internet; optical fibre networks; Internet energy efficiency; energy consumption; photonic signal processing technology; CMOS technology; Cooling; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; IP networks; Internet; Optical signal processing; Photonics; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Signal processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
  • Conference_Location
    Hong Kong
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4102-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4103-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2009.5222592
  • Filename
    5222592