Optical high radix switch design

Networking consumes up to 33 percent of modern data center power. Network switches are the key source of inefficiency: a switch traversal costs an order of magnitude more than a link traversal. The authors propose a new high-radix switch architecture that uses emerging integrated optical interconnec...

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Published inIEEE MICRO Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 100 - 109
Main Authors Binkert, N., Davis, A., Jouppi, N., McLaren, M., Muralimanohar, N., Schreiber, R., Ahn, J. H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2012
Subjects
Bandwidth
Consumption
Costs
Data centers
high-radix switch architecture
Links
Network architecture
network switches
Networks
Optical buffering
optical interconnect technology
Optical interconnections
Optical interconnects
Optical switches
Optical waveguides
Photonics
Switches
Switching circuits
Switching theory
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Summary:Networking consumes up to 33 percent of modern data center power. Network switches are the key source of inefficiency: a switch traversal costs an order of magnitude more than a link traversal. The authors propose a new high-radix switch architecture that uses emerging integrated optical interconnect technology to reduce switch power. They tailor every component of a switch to best exploit optical technology and improve switch scalability and energy efficiency.
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ISSN:0272-1732
1937-4143
DOI:10.1109/MM.2012.24