Bridging the Last Mile for Optical Switching in Data Centers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Ballani, Hitesh; Costa, Paolo; Haller, Istvan; Jozwik, Krzysztof; Shi, Kai; Thomsen, Benn; Williams, Hugh
- Source
- 2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2018. :1-3 Mar, 2018
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical switches
Data centers
Optical buffering
Throughput
Synchronization
Optical fiber networks
Production
- Language
Optical switches promise to revolutionize data centers by providing high bandwidth and low latency at low cost. This paper discusses some of the remaining challenges that need to be solved to make this technology successfully deployed in production.