Title :
FPGA-based optical programmable switch and interface card for disaggregated OPS/OCS data centre networks
Author :
Yan Yan;Yi Shu;George M. Saridis;Bijan R. Rofoee;Georgios Zervas;Dimitra Simeonidou
Author_Institution :
High Performance Networks, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Abstract :
We present an FPGA-based optical switch and interface card (SIC) for an optical disaggregated OPS/OCS DCN. It eliminates electronics from ToR switch and enables direct intra-rack blade-to-blade communication to deliver ultra-low intra-rack latency.
Keywords :
"Optical switches","Silicon carbide","Servers","Blades","Random access memory","Optical fibers"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341957