Title :
Energy consumption of ICT infrastructures: An operator´s viewpoint
Author :
Gosselin, S. ; Saliou, Fabienne ; Bourgart, Fabrice ; Le Rouzic, Esther ; Le Masson, S. ; Gati, Azeddine
Author_Institution :
Orange Labs., Lannion, France
Abstract :
The digital revolution has resulted up to now in the need for increasingly powerful and energy-hungry infrastructures. This paper provides an operator´s viewpoint on how to face this challenge, including some intermediate results of France Telecom Orange energy action plan and some expected technological and architectural evolutions of ICT infrastructures.
Keywords :
energy consumption; telecommunication power supplies; France Telecom Orange; ICT infrastructures; architectural evolutions; digital revolution; energy action plan; energy consumption; energy-hungry infrastructures; technological evolutions; Energy consumption; Optical buffering; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks; Ports (Computers);
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
