Sunday, March 4, 2012
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Energy and Cost-efficient Components and Architectures for Future Optical-Access Systems

Event type: Workshop

Room number: 408A

Organizer: Lowell Lamb; Broadcom Co., USA


Description:

Concerted efforts by regulators, network operators, equipment manufacturers, and component suppliers to reduce the power consumption of broadband access-network equipment already have led to significant power savings, and we can anticipate further improvements in the future. In spite of this trend, however, it is almost certain that projected increases in the number of customers and the bandwidth requirements per customer will place so much new demand on access networks that the total power consumption will grow to be significantly higher than it is today.

Members of this panel will discuss projections for future service demand and the concomitant access-network power consumption, the evolving regulatory environment, prospects for power-reduction in next-generation components, and potential new directions in the design of access equipment and networks.