A scalable, self-routed, terabit capacity, photonic interconnection network

Author

Shacham, Assaf ; Lee, Benjamin G. ; Bergman, Keren

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

17-19 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

150

Abstract

We present SPINet (Scalable Photonic Integrated Network), an optical switching architecture particularly designed for photonic integration. The performance of SPlNet-based networks is investigated through simulations, and it is shown that SPINet can provide the bandwidth demanded by high performance computing systems while meeting the ultra-low latency and scalability requirements. Experiments are conducted on a model SOA-based switching node to verify the feasibility of the SPINet concepts, and demonstrate error-free routing of 160 Gb/s peak bandwidth payload.

Keywords

multistage interconnection networks; optical fibre networks; optical interconnections; photonic switching systems; telecommunication network routing; 160 Gbit/s; SOA-based switching model; SPINet; bandwidth payload; error-free routing; optical switching architecture; photonic interconnection network; scalable photonic integrated network; self-routed terabit capacity; ultralow latency; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Delay; High performance computing; Integrated optics; Multiprocessor interconnection networks; Optical design; Optical fiber networks; Optical interconnections;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Interconnects, 2005. Proceedings. 13th Symposium on

ISSN

1550-4794

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2449-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CONECT.2005.6

Filename

1544590