Energy efficiency of optical transceivers in fiber access networks [invited]

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Ka Lun ^a   Sedighi, Behnam ^a   Tucker, Rodney S ^a   Chow, Hungkei ^b   Vetter, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Access networks; Energy efficiency; Optical transceivers

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORK; DATA NETWORK; DRIVER CIRCUIT; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY; IN-FIBER; INTERNET TRAFFIC; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS; PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES; POWER EFFICIENCY;

CARBON FOOTPRINT; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTERNET; LIGHT SOURCES; TRANSCEIVERS;

OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 84866691574     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.4.000A59     Document Type: Article

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