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 …

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 …

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 …

Numerical and experimental study of a high port-density WDM optical packet switch architecture for data centers

S Di Lucente, J Luo, RP Centelles, A Rohit, S Zou… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Data centers have to sustain the rapid growth of data traffic due to the increasing demand of
bandwidth-hungry internet services. The current intra-data center fat tree topology causes …

Optical switching for data center networks

N Parsons, N Calabretta - Springer Handbook of Optical Networks, 2020 - Springer
Cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and Big Data applications are imposing stringent
requirements on communications within warehouse-scale data centers (DC) in terms of high …

RDON: a rack-scale disaggregated data center network based on a distributed fast optical switch

X Guo, F Yan, J Wang, G Exarchakos… - Journal of Optical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aiming to solve the low utilization and high operational cost in current data centers and the
diversified resource requirements for different application types, we propose and investigate …

Towards petabit/s all-optical flat data center networks based on WDM optical cross-connect switches with flow control

W Miao, F Yan, N Calabretta - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scaling the capacity while maintaining low latency and power consumption is a challenge
for hierarchical data center networks (DCNs) based on electrical switches. In this work we …

Analysis and experimental demonstration of an optical switching enabled scalable data center network architecture

D Zhang, H Guo, G Chen, Y Zhu, H Yu, J Wang… - Optical Switching and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Optical communication technologies are playing more and more important roles in both intra-
and inter-data center networks. Particularly, optical switching network architectures for the …

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 …

Performance evaluation of hybrid optical switch architecture for data center networks

M Imran, M Collier, P Landais, K Katrinis - Optical Switching and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In response to the need for high bandwidth and power efficient data center interconnection
networks, different interconnects have been proposed based on the optical technology used …