MEMS and its Applications Optical Routing, an example

1. MEMS and its ApplicationsOptical Routing, an example Shashi Mysore Computer Science UCSB

2. Outline • MEMS • Introduction, application, fabrication • Generic router • Features and drawbacks • Optical Solution • Optical Router Projects • Stanford 100Tbps • Lucent LambdaRouter • GMPLS light path setup

3. What is MEMS? • Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems • integration of mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a common silicon substrate

4. Generic System abstraction Process Input Output What’s challenging? The input, output, processing elements are almost so varied that they are manufactured differently Interfacing problem – speed mismatch, transferring signal is difficult

5. MEMS Applications

6. Medical Applications

7. Micro-fabrication • Micromechanical components – micromachining • IC process

8. MEMS Manufacturing

9. Micromotor Fabrication example Micromotor Fabrication Example

10. MEMS devices

11. Whirlwind (1940) Scale comparison Cisco GSR 12416 19” Juniper M160 19” 3ft 6ft 2.5ft 2ft Capacity: 80Gb/sPower: 2.6kW Capacity: 160Gb/sPower: 4.2kW

12. Technology Trend and Roadmap Technology Trend and Roadmap

13. Mems patents issued per year

14. MEMS in today’s Networks

15. Outline • MEMS • Introduction, application, fabrication • Generic router • Features and drawbacks • Optical Solution • Optical Router Projects • Stanford 100Tbps • Lucent LambdaRouter • GMPLS light path setup

16. Header Processing Header Processing Header Processing Lookup IP Address Lookup IP Address Lookup IP Address Update Header Update Header Update Header Address Table Address Table Address Table Generic Router Architecture Linecards Linecards Buffer Manager Switch Fabric Buffer Memory Buffer Manager Buffer Memory Buffer Manager Buffer Memory

17. Performance trends Router capacity x2.2/18 months Moore’s law x2/18 m DRAM access rate x1.1/18 m

18. Relative Performance Increase Internet traffic x2/yr 5x Router capacity x2.2/18 months

19. All-optical networks • An all-optical network is one in which information is carried via light particles – • or photons - from PC to PC, without ever having to be converted to electrical signals

20. OEO conversions are costly • Electronic switches have managed to keep up with increasing bandwidths; • Data sent increasing twice as fast as the routing capacity • However, Optical-Electrical-Optical conversions are costly!

21. Data storage in optics • Data storage is a critical problem for an optical router. • Optical solution - Bell Laboratories’ photonic IC keeps optical signals circulating around within the chip

22. Optical Router projects • Stanford 100Tbps Optical Router • Optical switching and Communications System Laboratory • UCDavis, UCSC, Colorado University, etc, • $12.5 million grant from DARPA for Lucent Bell Labs • "The result of this work will be a scalable prototype system that will digitally manipulate optical beams, like radio beams are manipulated today, enabling better communications over farther distances,"-Mike Geller, vice president of Lucent's Government Communications Lab.

23. Stanford 100Tb/s router project Switch Fabric Electronic Linecard #1 Electronic Linecard #625 160- 320Gb/s 160- 320Gb/s • Line termination • IP packet processing • Packet buffering • Line termination • IP packet processing • Packet buffering 160Gb/s 160Gb/s Arbitration Request Grant (100Tb/s = 625 * 160Gb/s)

24. DRAM DRAM DRAM DRAM DRAM DRAM Queue Manager Queue Manager SRAM SRAM Lookup Lookup Racks with 160Gb/s linecards

25. 100Tb/s Router Optical links Optical Switch Fabric Racks of 160Gb/s Linecards

26. 1 1 2 2 n n Passive Optical Switching Integrated AWGR or diffraction grating based wavelength router Midstage Linecard 1 Egress Linecard 1 Ingress Linecard 1 1 1 1 1 Midstage Linecard 2 Egress Linecard 2 Ingress Linecard 2 2 2 2 2 Midstage Linecard n Egress Linecard n Ingress Linecard n n n n n

27. Outline • MEMS • Introduction, application, fabrication • Generic router • Features and drawbacks • Optical Solution • Optical Router Projects • Stanford 100Tbps • Lucent LambdaRouter • GMPLS light path setup

28. Lucent LambdaRouter • Density - 250 micro mirrors fit on a one-square-inch chip • Compact switching fabric - 32 times greater switching density • Tilting mirrors - individual wavelength can be passed to any of 256 input and output fibers. • Power reduction – upto 100-fold over electronic fabric solutions. • “Instant Internet" and other high-speed data and video services • "As communications networks evolve, optical technology will be at the core of these networks and make its way out toward the edges -- bringing unlimited capacity and speed to the desktop and someday, even the home,"

29. Micro mirrors Routing light through Micro mirrors

30. LambdaRouter • Multiple bi-directional fibres • Interconnect LambdaRouters • Incoming signals demultiplexed • Optical Switching • Outputs are wavelength multiplexed Beware of wavelenght collisions! LambdaRouter with a shared pool of wavelength converters

31. GMPLS Lightpath setup • Data plane – all optical • Optical layer control plane – required to provision lightpaths • Use GMPLS to solve the problem? • Call blocking probability metric

32. RSVP-TE Lightpath Setup

33. GMPLS - Wavelength converters

34. GMPLS – Crankback feature

35. Challenges in MEMS technology • Advanced Simulation and modeling tools • Packaging needs improvement • Though started in 1960s, the amount of R&D investment has begun only in the past 10 years • Multidisciplinary study

36. Thanks • Some slides/figures borrowed from Stanford 100Tbps project, Colorado University presentation, Bell Labs, and news articles