We provide models for evaluating the performance, cost and power consumption of different architectures suitable for a metropolitan area network (MAN). We then apply these models to compare today's synchronous optical network/synchronous digital hierarchy metro rings with different alternatives envisaged for next-generation MAN: an Ethernet carrier grade ring, an optical hub-based architecture and an optical time-slotted wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) ring. Our results indicate that the optical architectures are likely to decrease power consumption by up to 75% when compared with present day MANs. Moreover, by allowing the capacity of each wavelength to be dynamically shared among all nodes, a transparent slotted WDM yields throughput performance that is practically equivalent to that of today??s electronic architectures, for equal capacity.
Cost, Power Consumption and Performance Evaluation of Metro Networks / Andrea Bianco;Thomas Bonald;Davide Cuda;Raluca-Maria Indre. - In: JOURNAL OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING. - ISSN 1943-0620. - STAMPA. - 5:1(2013), pp. 81-91. [10.1364/JOCN.5.000081]
Titolo: | Cost, Power Consumption and Performance Evaluation of Metro Networks | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2013 | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.5.000081 | |
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