DocumentCode
161781
Title
First demonstration of all-optical programmable SDM/TDM intra data centre and WDM inter-DCN communication
Author
Yan, Shuo ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Rancano, V.J.F. ; Shu, Y. ; Saridis, G. ; Rofoee, B.R. ; Yan, Y. ; Peters, Achim ; Jain, Sonal ; May-Smith, T.C. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Zervas, Georgios ; Simeonidou, Dimitra
Author_Institution
High Performance Networks Group, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK
fYear
2014
fDate
21-25 Sept. 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We successfully demonstrate a flat-structured DCN powered by large-port-count fibre-switch-based OCS, PLZT-switch enabled TDM and MEFs supported SDM. The inter-DCN ToR-to-ToR direct optical connections are setup through metro/core networks using all-optical SDM/WDM converters.
Keywords
computer centres; optical fibre networks; space division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; PLZT switch; WDM inter DCN communication; all optical programmable SDM/TDM intra data centre; inter-DCN ToR-to-ToR direct optical connections; large port count fibre switch based OCS; metro-core networks; optical SDM/WDM converters; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections; Optical switches; Optical transmitters; Time division multiplexing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location
Cannes
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964258
Filename
6964258
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