Optical Switching in Next Generation Data Centers

Part 1. System aspects of intra data center networking.- Chapter 1.Photonics Data Centers.- Chapter 2.Optical switching in Data Centers Architectures based on optical circuit switching.- Chapter 3.Optical switching in Data Centers: Architectures based on optical packet/burst switching.- Part 2. Demonstrations of optical switching in Data Center.- Chapter 4.OSA an Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks with Unprecendented Flexibility.- Chapter 5. The Hi-Ring Architecture for Data Center Networks.- Chapter 6.Low Latency Interconnect Optical Network Switch (LIONS).- Chapter 7. Torus-Topology Data Center Networks with Hybrid Opto-electronic Routers.- Chapter 8.LIGHTNESS: All-Optical SDN-enabled Intra-DCN with Optical Circuit and Packet Switching.- Chapter 9.Hybrid OPS/EPS Photonic Ethernet Switch and Pure Photonic Packet Switch.- Chapter 10. OPMDC: Optical Pyramid Data Center Network.- Part 3. Technologies for Optical Switching in Data Centers.- Chapter 11.Commercial optical switches.- Chapter 12.Silicon Photonics switch Matrices: Technologies and Architectures.- Chapter 13.Trends in High Speed Interconnects for Datacenter Networking: Multidimensional Formats and Their Enabling DSP.- Chapter 14.Trends in high speed interconnects for data center networking : InP monolithic integration.- Part 4. Prospects and future trends._Chapter 15. The future of switching in data centers.