Energy efficiency in PON home network scenarios with network enhanced Residential Gateways
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Montalvo, J.; Torrijos, Jose A.; Xia, Jinwei; Ye, Yabin
- Source
- 2013 10th IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKING, SENSING AND CONTROL (ICNSC) Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), 2013 10th IEEE International Conference on. :141-145 Apr, 2013
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
IEEE 802.11 Standards
Logic gates
Local area networks
Wide area networks
Distance measurement
Europe
Fiber to the Home/Building (FTTH/B)
Passive Optical Networks (PON)
Optical Network Termination (ONT)
Residential Gateway
energy efficiency
- Language
In this paper, new home network equipment alternatives for Passive Optical Networks (PON) are analyzed in terms of energy efficiency. Regarding Optical Network Terminations (ONT), relevant savings have been estimated by avoiding unused Ethernet and POTS interfaces at the ONTs. Minimal power consumption can be achieved using ONTs embedded in Small-Form Pluggable (SFP) packages. Power savings achieved by delivering Layer 3 functionalities of routed Residential Gateways (RG) to the service provider network are also estimated. Total savings in home network equipment power consumptions combining both energy efficiency approaches in ONT and RGs are estimated in a massive deployment broadband scenario, obtaining significant power saving with values ranging from 10% to 64%.