Bridging the Last Mile for Optical Switching in Data Centers Page 1 W1C.3.pdf OFC 2018 © OSA
2018 Bridging the Last Mile for Optical Switching in Data Centers Hitesh Ballani Paolo Costa …

Reflecting the recent slow-down in Moore's law and the proliferation of artificial
intelligence/machine learning workloads, the performance and energy consumption of …

As the bandwidth of data center switches increases, a disproportionate amount of power is
becoming dedicated to the switch-optics interface. Reducing the physical separation …

The modern optical data centers are facing bottleneck conditions due to humongous data
generated by modern user applications. By 2020, the peak traffic is estimated to be around …

Applying optical switching to data center networks can greatly expand network bandwidth
and reduce electrical power consumption, both of which are needed to meet the explosive …

40 Gb/s 8×8 low-latency optical switch for data centers Page 1 40 Gb/s 8×8 Low-latency
Optical Switch for Data Centers Roberto Proietti1, Xiaohui Ye1, Yawei Yin1, Andrew Potter1 …

OFC 2011_final Page 1 The Emerging Optical Data Center Amin Vahdat1,2, Hong Liu1,
Xiaoxue Zhao1 and Chris Johnson1 1 Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA 94043, USA 2 UC San …

We discuss challenges for optically enabled high-radix switches in data centers. We
highlight the clear advantages of using high-radix switches and explain why coupling such …

The ever-growing society of information has its backbone on a complex network of optical
links among nodes where data are stored and processed. These nodes are mostly …

In this paper, we describe Apollo, to the best of our knowledge, the world's first large-scale
production deployment of optical circuit switches (OCSes) for datacenter networking. We …