A team of scientists at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs have examined the energy consumption trends of communications equipment in use today and determined that gains in energy efficiency are not keeping pace with traffic growth. One consequence is that energy is going to become an increasingly important problem for communication networks.
The scientists estimate that power consumed per user could increase by seven-fold over the next 10 years.
More important, recent efficiency improvement rates of 20 percent per year are falling to roughly 10 percent. The findings also showed that optical transmission gear consumes more than a factor of 10 less than other network technologies such as cellular base stations and packet routers.
With communication the by-word of tomorrow, shows how more thought needs to be put into the efficient use of energy in this sector.
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