Photonic switching in high performance datacenters

Q Cheng, S Rumley, M Bahadori, K Bergman - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Photonic switches are increasingly considered for insertion in high performance datacenter
architectures to meet the growing performance demands of interconnection networks. We …

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 …

Opsquare: A flat DCN architecture based on flow-controlled optical packet switches

F Yan, W Miao, O Raz, N Calabretta - Journal of Optical …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Aiming at solving the scaling issues of bandwidth and latency in current hierarchical data
center network (DCN) architectures, we propose and investigate a novel optical flat DCN …

HiFOST: A scalable and low-latency hybrid data center network architecture based on flow-controlled fast optical switches

F Yan, X Xue, N Calabretta - Journal of Optical Communications …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To solve the bandwidth and latency issues in current hierarchical data center network (DCN)
architectures based on electrical switches, we propose a novel hybridDCNarchitecture …

A scalable, low-latency, high-throughput, optical interconnect architecture based on arrayed waveguide grating routers

R Proietti, Z Cao, CJ Nitta, Y Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
This paper proposes, simulates, and experimentally demonstrates an optical interconnect
architecture for large-scale computing systems. The proposed architecture, Hierarchical …

DACON: a reconfigurable application-centric optical network for disaggregated data center infrastructures

X Guo, X Xue, F Yan, B Pan, G Exarchakos… - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
To solve the issues of low resource utilization and performance bottleneck in current server-
centric data center networks (DCNs), we propose and experimentally demonstrate a …

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 …

Optoelectronic switch

A Rickman, N Farrington, AS Nagra - US Patent 9,706,276, 2017 - Google Patents
A switch module and optoelectronic switch incorporating the same. The optoelectronic
switch includes an N-dimensional array of switch modules arranged in a topology in which …

Performance trade-offs in reconfigurable networks for HPC

MY Teh, Z Wu, M Glick, S Rumley… - Journal of Optical …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Designing efficient interconnects to support high-bandwidth and low-latency communication
is critical toward realizing high performance computing (HPC) and data center (DC) systems …

Archon: A function programmable optical interconnect architecture for transparent intra and inter data center SDM/TDM/WDM networking

S Yan, E Hugues-Salas, VJF Rancaňo… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports all-optical, function programmable, transparent, intra-and inter-data
center networking (DCN) using space and time-division multiplexing (SDM/TDM) within data …