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ISTC-CC Abstract
Switching the Optical Divide: Fundamental Challenges for
Hybrid Electrical/Optical Datacenter Networks
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC'11), Cascais, Portugal, October 2011.
Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzaz^, Malveeka Tewari^, Guohui Wang*, George Porter^,
T. S. Eugene Ng*, David G. Andersen†, Michael Kaminsky‡, Michael A. Kozuch‡,
Amin Vahdat^
^University of California, San Diego,
*Rice University,
†Carnegie Mellon University,
‡Intel Labs
Recent proposals to build hybrid electrical (packet-switched) and optical (circuit switched) data center interconnects promise to reduce the cost, complexity, and energy requirements of very large data center networks. Supporting realistic traffic patterns, however, exposes a number of unexpected and difficult challenges to actually deploying these systems "in the wild." In this paper, we explore several of these challenges, uncovered during a year of experience using hybrid interconnects. We discuss both the problems that must be addressed to make these interconnects truly useful, and the implications of these challenges on what solutions are likely to be ultimately feasible.
FULL PAPER: pdf