Experimental Demonstration of a Nanoseconds Optical Switch based Disaggregated Data Center Network
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Guo, Xiaotao; Xue, Xuwei; Pan, Bitao; Wang, Yu; Zhang, Shaojuan; Exarchakos, Georgios; Calabretta, Nicola
- Source
- 2021 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021. :1-3 Jun, 2021
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Data centers
Optical switches
Prototypes
Packet loss
Error-free operations
Optical fiber communication
- Language
A disaggregated DCN prototype based on nanoseconds optical switch is experimentally assessed. Results show a network latency of 122.3ns, no packet loss, and error-free operation with power penalty of 0.5dB at BER of 1E-9.