High-port and low-latency optical switches for disaggregated data centers: the Hipoλaos switch architecture

N Terzenidis, M Moralis-Pegios… - Journal of Optical …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The emergence of disaggregation in data center (DC) architectures as a way to increase
resource utilization introduces significant challenges to the DC switching infrastructure …

High-port low-latency optical switch architecture with optical feed-forward buffering for 256-node disaggregated data centers

N Terzenidis, M Moralis-Pegios… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Departing from traditional server-centric data center architectures towards disaggregated
systems that can offer increased resource utilization at reduced cost and energy envelopes …

DOS: A scalable optical switch for datacenters

X Ye, Y Yin, SJB Yoo, P Mejia, R Proietti… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This paper discusses the architecture and performance studies of Datacenter Optical Switch
(DOS) designed for scalable and high-throughput interconnections within a data center …

A 1024-port optical uni-and multicast packet switch fabric

M Moralis-Pegios, N Terzenidis… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Novel Data Center (DC) architectures based on resource disaggregation hold the potential
to increase the resource utilization at a reduced energy and cost envelope, imposing …

Intra and inter datacenter networking: The role of optical packet switching and flexible bandwidth optical networking

SJB Yoo, Y Yin, K Wen - 2012 16th International Conference on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses prospects and challenges of optical networking designed to meet
exponentially growing demands of data traffic. We discuss both intra and inter data-center …

ROTOS: a reconfigurable and cost-effective architecture for high-performance optical data center networks

X Xue, F Yan, K Prifti, F Wang, B Pan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast and high capacity optical switching techniques have the potential to enable low latency
and high throughput optical data center networks (DCNs) to afford the rapid increasing traffic …

25.6 Tbps capacity and sub-µsec latency switching for datacenters using> 1000-port optical packet switch architectures

A Tsakyridis, N Terzenidis… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss the challenges and limitations of current electrical DataCenter switches towards
scaling beyond the 25.6 Tb/s capacity-era while meeting a low-latency and high-radix …

Fully programmable and scalable optical switching fabric for petabyte data center

Z Zhu, S Zhong, L Chen, K Chen - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present a converged EPS and OCS switching fabric for data center networks (DCNs)
based on a distributed optical switching architecture leveraging both WDM & SDM …

Combining circuit and packet switching using a large port-count optical cross-connect for data center networks

Q Huang, YK Yeo, L Zhou - Optics Communications, 2012 - Elsevier
The exponential increase in the data center network traffic has posed new challenges for
achieving high throughput, low latency and energy consumption. To address these …

OSA: An optical switching architecture for data center networks with unprecedented flexibility

K Chen, A Singla, A Singh… - IEEE/ACM …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A detailed examination of evolving traffic characteristics, operator requirements, and network
technology trends suggests a move away from nonblocking interconnects in data center …