<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Due to potential economic benefits and expected environmental impact, the power consumption issue in wired networks has become a major challenge. Furthermore, continuously increasing global Internet traffic demands high spectral efficiency values. As a result, the relationship between spectral efficiency and energy consumption of telecommunication networks has become a popular topic of academic research over the past years, where a critical parameter is power efficiency. The present research contains calculation results that can be used by optical network designers and operators as guidance for developing more power efficient communication networks if the planned system falls within the scope of this paper. The research results are presented as average aggregated traffic curves that provide more flexible data for the systems with different spectrum availability. Further investigations could be needed in order to evaluate the parameters under consideration taking into account particular spectral parameters, e.g., the entire C-band.</p></abstract>

Due to potential economic benefits and expected environmental impact, the power consumption issue in wired networks has become a major challenge. Furthermore, continuously increasing global Internet traffic demands high spectral efficiency values. As a result, the relationship between spectral efficiency and energy consumption of telecommunication networks has become a popular topic of academic research over the past years, where a critical parameter is power efficiency. The present research contains calculation results that can be used by optical network designers and operators as guidance for developing more power efficient communication networks if the planned system falls within the scope of this paper. The research results are presented as average aggregated traffic curves that provide more flexible data for the systems with different spectrum availability. Further investigations could be needed in order to evaluate the parameters under consideration taking into account particular spectral parameters, e.g., the entire C-band.

Evaluation of Signal Regeneration Impact on the Power Efficiency of Long-Haul DWDM Systems

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences

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Due to potential economic benefits and expected environmental impact, the power consumption issue in wired networks has become a major challenge. Furthermore,...

Evaluation of Signal Regeneration Impact on the Power Efficiency of Long-Haul DWDM Systems

Published Online: Nov 22, 2017

Page range: 68 - 77

Received: Aug 17, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lpts-2017-0035

Keywords
differential phase shift keying, DWDM, energy efficiency, optical fibre networks, phase shift keying, power consumption, power efficiency, single-line rate, spectral efficiency, sub-band spacing, WDM networks

© by D. Pavlovs

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Evaluation of Signal Regeneration Impact on the Power Efficiency of Long-Haul DWDM Systems

Published Online: Nov 22, 2017

Page range: 68 - 77

Received: Aug 17, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lpts-2017-0035

Keywordsdifferential phase shift keying, DWDM, energy efficiency, optical fibre networks, phase shift keying, power consumption, power efficiency, single-line rate, spectral efficiency, sub-band spacing, WDM networks

© by D. Pavlovs

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
differential phase shift keying, DWDM, energy efficiency, optical fibre networks, phase shift keying, power consumption, power efficiency, single-line rate, spectral efficiency, sub-band spacing, WDM networks