A Fast Control Plane for a Large-Scale and High-Speed Optical Circuit Switch System

2024/01/17 by Ryousei Takano, Kiyo Ishii, Takano, Ryousei +9
Engineering · #Advanced Optical Network Technologies #Advanced Photonic Communication Systems #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI) #Optical Network Technologies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.09284

openalex publication_date 2024/01/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We experimentally verify a fast control plane with 100 microseconds of configuration time that can support more than 1000 racks, leveraged by a software-defined network controller and an industrial real-time Ethernet standard EtherCAT.

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