Prototyping optical ethernet—a network for distributed data centers in the edge cloud

Low latency requirements are driving the data center business into the metro area, the so-called Edge Cloud. We investigate the new networking requirements and how they can be served by our Optical Ethernet framework. We elaborate why the Edge Cloud requires true packet switching in the metro networ...

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Published inJournal of optical communications and networking Vol. 10; no. 12; pp. 1005 - 1014
Main Authors Lautenschlaeger, Wolfram, Dembeck, Lars, Gebhard, Ulrich
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway Optica Publishing Group 01.12.2018
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
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Data center
Data centers
Edge Cloud
Ethernet
Forward error correction
Jitter
Latency
Metropolitan areas
Optical fiber networks
Optical fibers
Optical packet switching
Packet switching
Prototype
Prototypes
Prototyping
Vibration
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Summary:Low latency requirements are driving the data center business into the metro area, the so-called Edge Cloud. We investigate the new networking requirements and how they can be served by our Optical Ethernet framework. We elaborate why the Edge Cloud requires true packet switching in the metro network, instead of today’s dominating packet transport in static channels. And we report prototyping results, where we verify to which extent our Optical Ethernet framework provides true packet switching, how it scales to reasonable node counts, and how to satisfy persisting needs for dedicated lossless and jitter-free point-to-point connections in the scope of the same architecture.
ISSN:1943-0620
1943-0639
DOI:10.1364/JOCN.10.001005