DORIOS: Demonstration of an all-optical distributed CPU, memory, storage intra DCN interconnect

Author

Saridis, G.M. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Yan, Y. ; Yan, S. ; Poole, S. ; Zervas, G. ; Simeonidou, D.

Author_Institution

High-performance Networks Group, Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

fYear

2015

fDate

22-26 March 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We show an all-optical ultra-low latency server-to-remote memory/storage data center interconnection, exploiting programmable, flexible, bi-directional and data-rate transparent 4×16 Spectrum Selective Switches and supporting elastic WDM/TDM services using fast nanosecond tunable lasers.

Keywords

computer centres; high-speed optical techniques; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; optical storage; optical switches; time division multiplexing; wavelength division multiplexing; DORIOS; all-optical distributed CPU; data center networks; elastic TDM services; elastic WDM services; fast nanosecond tunable lasers; intra DCN interconnect; programmable flexible bidirectional data rate transparent spectrum selective switches; time division multiplexing; ultra-low latency server-to-remote memory data center interconnection; ultra-low latency server-to-remote storage data center interconnection; wavelength division multiplexing; Decision support systems; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Optical switches; Random access memory; Servers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA

Type

conf

Filename

7121899