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Scaling Optical Interconnects in Datacenter Networks Opportunities and Challenges for WDM

Hong Liu
Cedric F. Lam
Chris Johnson
2010 18th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, IEEE, pp. 113-116
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Abstract

We review the growing need for optical interconnect bandwidth in datacenter networks, and the opportunities and challenges for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) to sustain the “last 2km” bandwidth growth inside datacenter networks.

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