[S3] Advanced Optical Technologies for Bigdata/IoT Service

[S3-6] Optical Networks in Edge Clouds: Energy and Application Dimensions

〇Daniel C. Kilper¹, Tasha A. Adams¹, Fatma Al-Ali², Ronald D. Williams², Malathi Veeraraghavan² (¹University of Arizona, USA, ²University of Virginia, USA)

Keywords:Optical core/metro/data-center network architecture, design, virtualization, slice, control and management

Optical networks provide capacity and low latency that can enable new edge cloud computing based applications, including 5G baseband processing, personal computing, and connected vehicles. The role of optical networks in these applications is examined and the efficiency of the associated networks is reviewed.