High-performance flat data center network architecture based on scalable and flow-controlled optical switching system

Nicola Calabretta; Wang Miao; Harm Dorren

doi:10.1117/12.2205231

15 March 2016 High-performance flat data center network architecture based on scalable and flow-controlled optical switching system

Nicola Calabretta, Wang Miao, Harm Dorren

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Proceedings Volume 9753, Optical Interconnects XVI; 97530W (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2205231
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Traffic in data centers networks (DCNs) is steadily growing to support various applications and virtualization technologies. Multi-tenancy enabling efficient resource utilization is considered as a key requirement for the next generation DCs resulting from the growing demands for services and applications. Virtualization mechanisms and technologies can leverage statistical multiplexing and fast switch reconfiguration to further extend the DC efficiency and agility. We present a novel high performance flat DCN employing bufferless and distributed fast (sub-microsecond) optical switches with wavelength, space, and time switching operation. The fast optical switches can enhance the performance of the DCNs by providing large-capacity switching capability and efficiently sharing the data plane resources by exploiting statistical multiplexing. Benefiting from the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) control of the optical switches, virtual DCNs can be flexibly created and reconfigured by the DCN provider. Numerical and experimental investigations of the DCN based on the fast optical switches show the successful setup of virtual network slices for intra-data center interconnections. Experimental results to assess the DCN performance in terms of latency and packet loss show less than 10^-5 packet loss and 640ns end-to-end latency with 0.4 load and 16- packet size buffer. Numerical investigation on the performance of the systems when the port number of the optical switch is scaled to 32x32 system indicate that more than 1000 ToRs each with Terabit/s interface can be interconnected providing a Petabit/s capacity. The roadmap to photonic integration of large port optical switches will be also presented.

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Nicola Calabretta, Wang Miao, and Harm Dorren "High-performance flat data center network architecture based on scalable and flow-controlled optical switching system", Proc. SPIE 9753, Optical Interconnects XVI, 97530W (15 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2205231

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