Nokia recently announced that its company, along with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) and Anritsu Corporation successfully conducted a Proof of Concept (PoC) to showcase the effectiveness of Elastic networking in lowering energy consumption in mobile networks as a worldwide first.
Elastic networking was developed under the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum. When this technology is deployed, it reduces energy costs by “switching away network resources from the secondary destination to a primary destination effectively having the ability to hibernate radio and optical equipment at the same time.” Network resources can also be switched over on demand when necessary, for example when there are sudden bursts in traffic. End users, particularly those in heavily populated urban areas, will not have any issues of network degradation or performance. Elastic networking can allow operators such as NTT to meet future bandwidth requirements from AI while simultaneously reducing energy consumption. This validation allows for the widespread adoption of Elastic network to aid telecommunications operators in ensuring their networks are more energy-efficient.
Nokia’s 1830 Time-sensitive Packet Switch (TPS) and 1830 Photonic Service Switch (PSS) were both utilized to conduct the PoC.
James Watt, Vice President and General Manager, Optical Networks Division at Nokia, commented, “Reducing power consumption across our product portfolio is a priority for Nokia to help boost energy efficiency and significantly cut our customers’ carbon footprint. This successful PoC highlights the trusted performance and resilience of our optical products. We will continue to work and innovate with IOWN GF and other industry players to further optimize the power consumption of wireless networks without impacting performance.”
Takeshi Shima, Director, a member of the Board, Senior Vice President, President of Test and Measurement Company at Anritsu, stated, “Anritsu is committed to support this important industry topic of energy efficiency, and we are proud to contribute to this IOWN GF industry first PoC activity."
