Scalability Assessment of the OPSquare Architecture for High-capacity and Large-connectivity Data Center Networks

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Miao, Wang; Yan, Fulong; Calabretta, Nicola (COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)

Abstract:
The OPSquare data center network performance are investigated for different modulation format and high-capacity 4x25Gb/s waveband, 28Gb/s PAM4 and 40Gb/s DMT traffic. Results show >8 dB dynamic range with <3 dB penalty for optical switches at scale of 64×64.