Real Time Demonstration of an End-to-End Optical Datacenter Network with Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation

Konstantinos Tokas, Christos Spatharakis, Ioannis Patronas, Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Giada Landi, Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos, Marco Capitani, Angelos Kyriakos, Muzzamil Aziz, Richard Pitwon, Domenico Gallico, Dionisios I. Reisis, Emmanouel A. Varvarigos, Eitan Zahavi, Hercules Avramopoulos

Abstract: We demonstrate combined operation of a scalable optical data-plane architecture with an SDN overlay capable of slotted operation for dynamic allocation of network resources. Real-time end-to-end functionality is verified in a six-host prototype datacenter cluster.