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Grant Agreement No. 619572Grant Agreement • March 9th, 2015
This document surveys the progress made in WP2 relating to the integration of an Open Flow software interface to the two optical switching technologies included in the project. The optical switches make part of the novel data plane architecture included in the COSIGN project. Both switching technologies represent complementary solutions to the problem of optical interconnects in large scale data center networks. The Polatis switch represents a low loss (<2dB) and high port count (>200 ports) optical interconnect with switching time in the millisecond range. The Venture switch represents an ultrafast (~1nsec) optical switch with a low port count (initially 4x4) and slightly higher losses (<4dB for first samples, but improving to 0dB by end of project). Together they make up the building blocks for the COSIGN photonic data plane switch fabric.
