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A High-Radix, Low-Latency Optical Switch for Data Centers

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SIGCOMM '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication

Pages 367 - 368

https://doi.org/10.1145/2785956.2790035

Published: 17 August 2015 Publication History

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We demonstrate an optical switch design that can scale up to a thousand ports with high per-port bandwidth (25 Gbps+) and low switching latency (40 ns). Our design uses a broadcast and select architecture, based on a passive star coupler and fast tunable transceivers. In addition we employ time division multiplexing to achieve very low switching latency. Our demo shows the feasibility of the switch data plane using a small testbed, comprising two transmitters and a receiver, connected through a star coupler.

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A High-Radix, Low-Latency Optical Switch for Data Centers
1. Networks
  1. Network components
    1. Intermediate nodes
      1. Bridges and switches
  2. Network types
    1. Data center networks

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SIGCOMM '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Special Interest Group on Data Communication

August 2015

684 pages

ISBN:9781450335423

DOI:10.1145/2785956

General Chairs:
Steve Uhlig
Queen Mary University of London, UK
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Olaf Maennel
Tallinn U. of Technology in Estonia, Estonia
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Program Chairs:
Brad Karp
University College London, UK
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Jitendra Padhye
Microsoft, USA

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 45, Issue 4
SIGCOMM'15
October 2015
659 pages
ISSN:0146-4833
DOI:10.1145/2829988
Editors:
Konstantina Papagiannaki
Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain
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Katerina Argyraki
EPFL, Switzerland
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Hitesh Ballani
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
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Fabián Bustamante
Northwestern University, USA
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Joseph Camp
SMU, USA
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Augustin Chaintreau
Columbia University, USA
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Phillipa Gill
Stony Brook University, USA
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Marco Mellia
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
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Bhaskaran Raman
IIT Bombay, India
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Joel Sommers
Colgate University, USA
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Aline Carneiro Viana
INRIA, France
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