Title :
Electrical power consumption of large electronic and optical switching fabrics
Author_Institution :
Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Broadband Communications, Favoritenstrasse 9/388, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
Four realization options of large switching fabrics are evaluated with respect to total electrical power consumption. The considered options include circuit and packet switches realized using either electronic (CMOS) or optical (SOA, MEMS) technologies.
Keywords :
"Energy consumption","Fabrics","Optical packet switching","Optical attenuators","Optical crosstalk","Optical buffering","Optical switches","High speed optical techniques","Repeaters","Switching circuits"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Winter Topicals Meeting Series (WTM), 2010 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5240-8
DOI :
10.1109/PHOTWTM.2010.5421958
