• DocumentCode
    2404743
  • Title

    Energy consumption in telecommunications

  • Author

    Tucker, Rodney S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    20-23 May 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The global telecommunications network consumes about 1% of the world´s electricity. This paper overviews research into constraining future increases in network power consumption while at the same time providing for growth in network traffic volume.
  • Keywords
    telecommunication networks; telecommunication traffic; energy consumption; global telecommunications network; network power consumption; network traffic volume; Electricity; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Passive optical networks; Power demand; Telecommunications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Interconnects Conference, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Fe, NM
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1620-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OIC.2012.6224478
  • Filename
    6224478