Ciena Corporation
Flat, highly connected optical network for data center switch connectivity

Abstract:

A flat data center network includes a plurality of switches each including a first plurality of server facing ports connected to a first set of servers, and a plurality of network facing ports connected to other switches of the plurality of switches, wherein the plurality of switches are interconnected via corresponding network facing ports in a semi-structured random network architecture that enables additional servers to be added to the flat data center network during operation while maintaining random interconnect.