A demonstration of ultra-low-latency data center optical circuit switching

Authors:
Nathan Farrington;George Porter;Pang-Chen Sun;Alex Forencich;Joseph Ford;Yeshaiahu Fainman;George Papen;Amin Vahdat
Affiliations:
UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA;UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We designed and constructed a 24x24-port optical circuit switch (OCS) prototype with a programming time of 68.5 μs, a switching time of 2.8 μs, and a receiver electronics initialization time of 8.7 μs [1]. We demonstrate the operation of this prototype switch in a data center testbed under various workloads.