<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/2531" mdate="2011-09-29 00:00:00"> <author>V. Eramo and E. Miucci and A. Cianfrani and A. Germoni and M. Listanti</author> <title>Evaluation of Power Consumption of Spanke Optical Packet Switch</title> <pages>1240 - 1245</pages> <year>2011</year> <volume>5</volume> <number>9</number> <journal>International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/2531</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/57</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>The power consumption of an Optical Packet Switch equipped with SOA technology based Spanke switching fabric is evaluated. Sophisticated analytical models are introduced to evaluate the power consumption versus the offered traffic, the main switch parameters, and the used device characteristics. The impact of Amplifier Spontaneous Emission (ASE) noise generated by a transmission system on the power consumption is investigated. As a matter of example for 32&amp;times;32 switches supporting 64 wavelengths and offered traffic equal to 0,8, the average energy consumption per bit is 5, 07 &amp;middot; 102 nJbit and increases if ASE noise introduced by the transmission systems is increased.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 57, 2011</index> </article>