Apollo: Large-Scale Deployment of Optical Circuit Switching for Datacenter Networking
Ryohei Urata, Hong Liu, Kevin Yasumura, Erji Mao, Jill Berger, Xiang Zhou, Cedric F. Lam, Roy Bannon, Darren Lenard Hutchinson, Daniel Nelson, Leon Poutievski, Arjun Singh, Joon Ong, Amin Vahdat
Abstract
In this paper, we describe Apollo, to the best of our knowledge, the world’s first large-scale production deployment of optical circuit switches (OCSes) for datacenter networking. We review the underlying hardware technologies including the design of our internally developed OCS and WDM transceivers.
Topics & Concepts
Software deploymentApolloTransceiverComputer scienceOptical switchCircuit switchingScale (ratio)Wavelength-division multiplexingOptical networkingTelecommunicationsElectronic engineeringEngineeringWirelessMaterials scienceOperating systemOptoelectronicsPhysicsQuantum mechanicsBiologyWavelengthZoologySoftware-Defined Networks and 5GCloud Computing and Resource ManagementAdvanced Optical Network Technologies