Photonic switched networking for data centers and advanced computing systems

Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Giannis Patronas, Nikos Terzenidis, Zsolt-Alon Wertheimer, Prethvi Kashinkunti, Dimitris Syrivelis, Eitan Zahavi, Louis Capps, Nikos Argyris, Luke Yeager, Julie Bernauer, Elad Mentovich

Abstract: We explore optical switching to extend network programmability to the physical layer. We present applications of our Layer-1 SDN for improving fabric resilience against hardware failures and saving network power and cost in Deep-Learning training.