Title :
Challenges for future energy-aware optical access networks
Author_Institution :
NTT Access Network Service Syst. Labs., NTT Corp., Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract :
This paper first summarizes the current status of power saving techniques for optical access networks and highlights the remaining issues. It then discusses further challenges for realizing future energy-aware optical access networks with proposing a network configuration.
Keywords :
passive optical networks; energy-aware optical access networks; network configuration; power saving techniques; Energy efficiency; Optical network units; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Power demand; Sleep;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
