Telecommunications Science ›› 2016, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5): 44-51.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2016154

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Optical communication technologies for datacenters

Chongjin XIE   

  1. R&D Lab,Ali Infrastructure Service,Alibaba Group,San Mateo,CA 94402,USA
  • Online:2017-02-22 Published:2017-02-22

Abstract:

Due to the fast growth of internet services,datacenter related traffic has become the major part of the global network traffic.As a main technology for high-speed data transmission,optical communication technologies have been widely used in today's datacenter networks,from a few meter server-to-server interconnects to transoceanic datacenter-to-datacenter optical networks.Here the optical communication technologies for datacenters were reviewed,including technologies connecting datacenters in wider-area networks and metro-area networks as well as optical interconnect technologies within datacenters,and the advantages and disadvantages of some technologies in the networks were discussed.

Key words: datacenter, optical communication, wide-area network, metro-area network, optical transceiver

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