• 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