960 Gb/s Optical Backplane using Embedded Polymer Waveguides and Demonstration in a 12G SAS storage Array
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960 Gb/s Optical Backplane using Embedded Polymer Waveguides and Demonstration in a 12G SAS storage Array
- Author:
K. Schmidtke, F. Flens, A. Worrall, R. Pitwon, F. Betschon, T. Lamprecht, R. Kraehenbuehl
Global IP traffic has increased eightfold over the past 5 years and will increase threefold over the next 5 years reaching 1.3 zettabytes (ZB) per year by the end of 2016. Data available for storage is predicted to reach 3.3 ZB in 2015. This growth in data usage and storage is fuelled by critical business applications, high speed internet, multimedia networking applications, and “Big Data” causing applications to become more data-intensive and thus requiring higher data throughput, availability, processing speeds and storage capacities. Interconnect speeds in data storage systems based on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) point-to-point bus protocol will increase to 24 Gb/s by 2016, while the InfiniBand protocol used predominantly for rack-to-rack communication in enterprise Data Centers and High Performance Computers (HPC) will provide 25 Gb/s per link by 2013.
