OPTUNS: Optical Edge Datacenter Network Architecture and Prototype Testbed for Supporting 5G

Abstract

We present the architecture/testbed of an SDN-based optical-tunnel-network system (OPTUNS) for 5G edge-datacenters. Benchmarking results show that, compared to electrical-spine-leaf datacenter-network, OPTUNS achieves 82.6% power saving and significantly lower mean/p99 latency under high traffic load/locality.