Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions

M Tan, J Xu, S Liu, J Feng, H Zhang, C Yao… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
Due to the rise of 5G, IoT, AI, and high-performance computing applications, datacenter
traffic has grown at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30%. Furthermore, nearly three …

Hybrid electro-optical intra-data center networks tailored for different traffic classes

M Balanici, S Pachnicke - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
This work presents a novel approach in intra-data center network design and performance
evaluation, based on a tailored, long-range dependence data traffic generation model for …

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 …

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 …

Optical traffic grooming-based data center networks: Node architecture and comparison

GC Sankaran, KM Sivalingam - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With data center network traffic growing significantly, power-efficient optical and hybrid
optical architectures are considered as an alternate to packet switching. Typically, hybrid …

Thor: a scalable hybrid switching architecture for data centers

X Yu, H Xu, H Gu, H Lan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical interconnects are emerging as a high bandwidth and low energy alternative to
traditional electrical networks. However, most exiting designs put optical switching in the …

Customized Routing and Sub-timeslot Assignment for Deterministic Transport in FGU-enabled Metro Converged Optical-Electrical Networks

Y **ao, J Zhang, P Zhu, H Wu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) performs as an advanced technology in metro networks, offering
bandwidth sharing, high resilience, and resource isolation advantages. Featured as the new …

Performance analysis of optical burst switching with fast optical switches for data center networks

M Imran, P Landais, M Collier… - 2015 17th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we evaluate the performance of methods of optical burst switching (OBS)
designed for data center networks (DCNs) by using network-level simulation. We use fast …

[PDF][PDF] A survey on key roles of optical switching and labeling technologies on big data traffic of data centers and HPC environments

EN Lallas - AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering, 2019 - aimspress.com
The tremendous big data and IP traffic growth rate between interconnected Data Centers
(DC) and High Performance Computing (HPC) environments have imposed the need for …

Free space optical multicast crossbar

AS Hamza, JS Deogun, DR Alexander - Journal of Optical …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Enabling multicast in optical networks requires the use of multicast-capable optical switches.
In this paper, we propose a new class of multicast-capable free space optical (FSO) …