High Port Count Hybrid Wavelength Switched TDMA (WS-TDMA) Optical Switch for Data Centers

Adam Funnell; Joshua Benjamin; Hitesh Ballani; Paolo Costa; Philip Watts; Benn Thomsen

High Port Count Hybrid Wavelength Switched TDMA (WS-TDMA) Optical Switch for Data Centers

Adam Funnell ,
Joshua Benjamin ,
Hitesh Ballani ,
Paolo Costa ,
Philip Watts ,
Benn Thomsen

Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC'16) | March 2016

Published by OSA

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A WS-TDMA optical switch fabric scalable to 1024 ports is demonstrated. Fast tunable (<200ns) transceivers using bipolar encoded transmission and coherent reception enable wavelength switching and TDMA over a passive star network for low latency packet level switching.