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Energy consumption modelling of optical networks

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A simple, generic measurement-based power consumption model is described and is shown to apply to equipment, networks and services. This model is used to construct power consumption estimates for a diverse range of network scenarios including customer premises equipment and access, edge and core networks and services provided over a network.

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  1. Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia

    Kerry Hinton, Fatemeh Jalali & Ashrar Matin

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Appendix

The equipment parameters used to derive the numerical results in this paper are based on the equipment listed in Table 2. The data in the table were gathered using Cisco’s power consumption calculator [44].

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Hinton, K., Jalali, F. & Matin, A. Energy consumption modelling of optical networks. Photon Netw Commun 30, 4–16 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-015-0491-5

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