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Optical Circuit Switching: A technology that’s come of age From lab automation to networking AIGraeme Allott ABSTRACT - This presentation gives a perspective on the growing deployment of optical circuit switches for layer one automation since their emergence in the 1990’s. While initially utilised for off-network applications such as test lab automation and network monitoring, the advent of cloud computing and in particular AI in recent years has seen optical circuit switches take a central position in new network architectures. Thanks to their high switching speeds, low latency, transparency to signal types and bit rates, and very low power consumption compared to electrical switches, optical circuit switches are now being seriously considered by Hyperscalers and others for their AI data centres. |
