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Inside a data center many thousands of powerful servers need to communicate with high speed and low latency posing challenging requirements to the intra-data centers networking. Moreover, scalability, low footprint, high-energy efficiency and low cost are key factors for any new architecture and technology that want to be a candidate for use in data centers. While optical interconnect has already received a large consensus as the best technology for inter- and intra-rack interconnect, switching is today entirely implemented by electrical packet switching devices. This paper aims to review results of the European project IRIS (http://www.ict-iris.eu/), i.e. the design and the achieved results on a CMOS electronic and photonic integrated device for low cost, low power, transparent, mass-manufacturable optical switching. An unprecedented number of integrated photonic components (more than 1000), each individually electronically controlled, allows for the realization of a transponder aggregator device which interconnects up to 8 transponders to a four direction colorless-directionless-contentionless ROADM. Each direction supports twelve 200 GHz spaced wavelengths, which can be independently added or dropped from the network. An electronic ASIC, 3D integrated on top of the photonic chip, controls the switch fabrics to allow a complete and us fast reconfigurability. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1109/ICTON.2016.7550292 | 2016 18th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) |
DocType | ISSN | ISBN |
Conference | 2162-7339 | 978-1-5090-1468-2 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 0 |
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