OpenOptics: Enabling Open Research and Implementation of Optical Data Center Networks
summary
OpenOptics provides a concrete software stack and testbed that decouples optical hardware from control: a time-flow table abstraction plus a re‑architected per‑port time‑bucket queueing backend that schedules packets to future time slices. The team builds a programmable‑switch testbed, implements six architectures and seven routing schemes, and demonstrates a record 2 µs minimum optical circuit on commodity devices; evaluations include a 108‑ToR benchmark suite, TCP experiments showing severe reordering for spray routing, and full open‑source code.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00OpenOptics framework
- 1:01Optical data centers critical now
- 2:25Closed optical research ecosystems
- 4:09Decoupling hardware and software
- 5:11Routing in optical networks
- 7:57Time-based bucket scheduling
- 10:03High-level APIs for routing
- 11:46Deploying optical architectures in Python
- 12:28Test bed evaluation results
- 14:11TCP performance with OpenOptics
- 14:54Open source and community
- 15:15Q&A
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