Audzevich, Y;
Watts, P;
West, A;
Mujumdar, A;
Crowcroft, J;
Moore, AW;
(2013)
Low Power Optical Transceivers for Switched Interconnect Networks.
In:
2013 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC).
(pp. pp. 301-306).
IEEE
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Abstract
The power-consumption of network equipment is under ever-increasing scrutiny. As part of an ensemble project seeking to reduce power-consumption within data-centers1, this work focuses on reducing the power consumption of photonic transceivers for future fast power gated and/or optical switching networks. Utilising an open-source toolkit, we show that Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) dominates power consumption of traditional optical transceivers. This result has particular implications for the modulation format of future interconnects. At 25 Gb/s line rate, SERDES blocks of PAM-16 and 4-wavelength WDM are shown to have 53% and 79% lower power respectively compared with SERDES of serial NRZ as well as reduced power gating restoration time and energy.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Low Power Optical Transceivers for Switched Interconnect Networks |
| Event: | IEEE International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC) |
| Location: | Hochiminh City, Vietnam |
| Dates: | 2013-10-16 - 2013-10-18 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-4799-1086-1 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ATC.2013.6698126 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ATC.2013.6698126 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1409038 |
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