Title :
Impact of transponders and regenerators wake-up time on sleep-mode enabled translucent optical networks
Author :
Pages, Albert ; Tornatore, Massimo ; Perello, Jordi ; Spadaro, Salvatore ; Morea, Annalisa
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
Abstract :
Sleep-mode enabled transponders and regenerators yield to substantial energy savings; however, their non-negligible wake-up time may degrade the network performance. We show that an appropriate dimensioning of the devices per node can compensate such effect.
Keywords :
energy conservation; optical fibre networks; transponders; network performance degradation; non-negligible wake-up time; regenerators wake-up time; sleep mode; substantial energy saving; translucent optical network; transponders wake-up time; Degradation; Optical fiber networks; Performance evaluation; Power demand; Repeaters; Transponders; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W4B.4
