STUDY OF THE PERFORMANCE OF AN OPTICAL PACKET SWITCH ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA CENTER NETWORKS

Abstract

The paper analyzes and evaluates the performance of optical packet
switching architecture for data center networks (DCNs). The calculation and
simulation results show that Spanke switching architecture's performance is
better than other switching architectures. Based on this, the paper proposes a
new all-optical packet switching architecture for the data center network. In this
all-optical packet switching architecture, an improved spanke switching
architecture is used, which combines wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)
and the Optical Header Processor (OHP). With WDM OPS architecture combined
with OHP, it has significantly reduced system latency and increased switching
throughput in large data center networks.