DocumentCode
2053709
Title
Energy consumption in IP networks
Author
Tucker, Rodney S. ; Baliga, Jayant ; Ayre, Robert ; Hinton, Kerry ; Sorin, Wayne V.
Author_Institution
ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN) and National ICT Australia Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
fYear
2008
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2008
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
A model of energy consumption in IP networks is used to estimate the energy consumption of the public Internet. Today’s Internet uses less than 1% of the available electricity supply. However, network energy consumption could grow substantially as access rates increase.
Keywords
Energy consumption; High speed optical techniques; IP networks; Internet; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber networks; Passive optical networks; Routing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Brussels, Belgium
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN
978-1-4244-2228-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729202
Filename
4729202
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