A Power-Consumption Analysis for Different IPoWDM Network Architectures with ZR/ZR+ and Long-Haul Muxponders

Qiaolun Zhang, Annalisa Morea, Massimo Tornatore

We quantify and compare the power consumption of four IPoWDM transport network architectures employing ZR/ZR+ modules, considering different grooming, regeneration, and optical byp…