DOI: 10.1016/j.osn.2016.04.002
Abstract:
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 inter-rack/pod communications in the data centers have drawn remarkable attention in recent years. By exploiting the high-bandwidth nature and flexible resource allocation capability of optical switching technologies, data center networks (DCNs) may be designed to have high scalability and flexibility, as well as lower cost. Under such design principles...
Excerpt:
To achieve ?s-scale fast optical signal add/drop, Agiltron crystal optical 1 x 2 switches [22] are used, whose switching speed is around 300 ns...