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Does it Make Sense to put Optics in Both the Front and Backplane of a Large Data-Center?

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Abstract

We propose a dual optical architecture, with optics in both the front plane (connecting servers within a rack) and in the backplane (connecting TOR switches). The architecture is shown to scale to a million servers.

© 2017 Optical Society of America

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