“Intense power saving is needed to conquer the battle of growing bandwidth demands,” ProLabs warns at ECOC 2017

Tony Lefebvre discusses how to overcome the major power consumption concern in the design of data centres Gothenburg, Sweden. 18 September 2017: Tony Lefebvre, VP of Product Management & Marketing at optical transceiver specialist, ProLabs, today addressed why monitoring power consumption is integral to manage data centre environments. Speaking at ECOC 2017, Mr Lefebvre warned that operators need to be extra vigilant as data rates increase beyond 10G to 100G. “On a short-range optic, we are seeing typical power consumption on the transceivers go from 1W to greater than 3.5W…

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