Power consumption in the DSL access network system

Nowadays, people have been living with the rapid growth of telecommunication networks and Internet access globally. It has a significant role that is used by various industries, universities and other sectors. Fixed broadband Internet access provides high-speed data transmission and it uses a variety of technologies such as Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), fiber optics and wireless. DSL technologies are widely used to transmit data using twisted-pair telephone lines and it includes customer-premises equipment (CPE) like a DSL modem to provide an Internet connection. In accessing the Internet, electricity is mainly required to power the related devices such as modem as associated devices located at subscriber’s premises. This project described the analysis of the correlation between power consumption and (CPE) in DSL network systems to understand how traffic data demand may affect the changes of power consumed by equipment like DSL modems over time. These changes were represented in graph power (in mW) against timestamp with vary of Internet activities (in Mbps). The investigation was made at an actual VDSL access network-based model and the output power of the modem was measured using an IoT-based measuring tool to monitor and understand the power consumption of the access system depending on the modem’s part and Internet user activities.