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Hardware Requirements for Optical Circuit Switched Data Center Networks

Nathan Farrington
Yeshaiahu Fainman
George Papen
Amin Vahdat
IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Photonic Society, Optical Society of America, OFC/NFOEC 2011, Los Angeles (2010), OTuH3

Abstract

Based on measurements of a prototype, we identify hardware requirements for improving the performance of hybrid electrical-packet-switched/optical-circuit-switched data center networks.

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