Optical Switch

Large scale optical switching at Google - AS15169

It’s the day of Diwali. Happy Diwali 🪔 to everyone reading this post. 😀

I am in holiday mode from couple of days and mostly reading (and binge watching). While reading paper on Apollo - Google’s optical circuit switching, I looked around and came across a fascinating Google’s talk from last year. This talk covers how they made their own optical switches.



Quick notes

(Advanced warning: These are from eyes of network engineer working mostly at IP/ethernet layer with poor idea about optical layer)