Photonic Interconnect Technologies for Data Centre Environments Richard Pitwon Seagate Workshop on Optical Technologies for the Exascale Cloud Datacenter Era ECOC 2015 Valencia, Spain 27 th September 2015
Overview Data centre trends Migration of optical interconnect in data centres Collaborative research activities FP7 PhoxTrot review Seagate Confidential 2
Seagate Cloud Systems and Solutions Future Cloud Data Centre Systems Research and Innovation Network, Eco-system and Standardisation Collaborative Research and Development Seagate Confidential 3
Data centers and the Cloud Exponential growth in global data demand By 2020 44ZB Amount of data that will be created 13ZB Amount of data that will need to be stored 6.5ZB Amount of data that installed capacity will be able to hold 56% Amount of data that will be in the cloud Demand EXCEEDS all providers COMBINED Seagate Confidential 4
The Move Toward Mobility Is Shifting the Location of Data Location of exabytes shipped 77 Exabytes 25% In 2010, 62% of the storage was shipped into the client market 62% Consumer Electronics Client Compute Cloud Computing Tablets & Smartphones Source: Seagate Strategic Marketing and Research 2014 5
The Move Toward Mobility Is Shifting the Location of Data Location of exabytes shipped 8% 5% 25% 31% By 2020, that predominance will dramatically shift to the cloud 62% 1,121 Exabytes 56% Consumer Electronics Client Compute Cloud Computing Tablets & Smartphones Source: Seagate Strategic Marketing and Research 2014 6
Data Centres and the Cloud Seagate Confidential 7
Data Centres and the Cloud Compute Seagate Confidential 8
Data Centres and the Cloud Compute Memory Seagate Confidential 9
Data Centres and the Cloud Compute Memory Storage Seagate Confidential 10
Exponential Growth in Data Centre Traffic Data Storage Array By 2018, 76% of global data centre traffic will come from Cloud services and applications High Performance Computing and Storage Storage Server Integrated Application Platform Seagate Confidential 11
Exponential Growth in Data Centre Traffic Most data centre traffic is internal 75% - 77% of data centre traffic through 2018 will be internal (East West) Due to separation of application servers, storage, and data bases, which generates replication, back-up and read and write traffic traversing the data centre Source: Cisco Global Cloud Index (2013 2018) Seagate Confidential 12
Future Proofing Mega data centres starting to install single mode fibre optic infrastructures Source: OBO Betterman Seagate Confidential 13
Optical Interconnect deployment down to subsystem level Optically enabled data centre racks Optically enabled data storage platforms Seagate Confidential 14
Collaborative Research and Development Projects Future projects Seagate Confidential 15
SEPIANet Project (2011 2013) Develop system embedded optical interconnect eco-system for multimode silicon photonics including planar glass waveguide based circuits Seagate Confidential 16
SEPIANet project Planar glass waveguide backplane and connector platform Electro-optical backplane > 6 Tb/s aggregate bandwidth Planar glass waveguides Compliant with silicon photonics links Pluggable optical connectors Seamless connectivity to external fabric Fraunhofer IZM, ILFA, Xyratex Seagate Confidential 17
PhoxTrot Project Photonics for High-Performance, Low-Cost & Low-Energy Data Centers, High Performance Computing Systems Terabit/s Optical Interconnect Technologies for On-Board, Board-to-Board, Rack-to-Rack data links Seagate Confidential 18
PhoxTrot Project Photonics for High-Performance, Low-Cost & Low-Energy Data Centers, High Performance Computing Systems Terabit/s Optical Interconnect Technologies for On-Board, Board-to-Board, Rack-to-Rack data links Optically enabled data storage system platforms Single-mode and multimode waveguide optical connectors Silicon photonics structures Electro-optical circuit board design and characterisation Converged Ethernet Storage Solutions Seagate Confidential 19
Multimode Optical Interconnect Seagate Confidential 20
Multimode Optical Interconnect PhoxTest03.01 Fully optically interconnected data storage platform with fibre-optic interconnects Seagate Confidential 21
Multimode Optical Interconnect Fully optically interconnected data storage platform with fibre-optic interconnects Optical midplane receptacle Optical disk drive connector Electro-optical midplane Board mounted optical assembly 12 Tx + 12 Rx Hard Disk Drive Carrier 24 duplex channel fibre flex Expander SAS connectors Seagate Confidential 22
Multimode Optical Interconnect Electro-optical midplane with fibre-flexplane 2 part detachable fibre-optic flexplane Seagate Confidential 23
Multimode Optical Interconnect Electro-optical midplane with fibre-flexplane Disk drive array side Seagate Confidential 24
Multimode Optical Interconnect Electro-optical midplane with fibre-flexplane Disk drive array side 2U24 midplane with dense fibre-optic flexplane and proprietary optical and electrical receptacles for pluggable optical disk drive interfaces Seagate Confidential 25
Multimode Optical Interconnect Fully optically interconnected data storage platform with fibre-optic interconnects Seagate Confidential 26
Multimode Optical Interconnect PhoxDem09.02 Complex high layer count EOPCB with embedded MM polymer waveguide layer Besides optical waveguides, the board contains all required electrical layers and via structures (PTHs, n-pth, stacked and buried microvias) built around optical cores Waveguides Fabricated 16L + 1Opt unit - Top side Cross-section Seagate Confidential 27
Multimode Optical Interconnect PhoxDem09.03 Multimode optical PCB fibre-to-board couplers and board-to-board connectors Board-to-board Fibre-to-board Seagate Confidential 28
PhoxDem09.03 Seagate Confidential 29
PhoxDem09.03 PhoxDem09.03.BP1 Backplane with selection of HDPuG coupling interfaces. Also will accommodate MT terminated waveguide flexes PhoxDem09.03.TD1 Test daughtercard to house mezzanine cards PhoxDem09.03.MC1 Mezzanine card variant 1 housing Ultracomm engine and high speed RF connectors Seagate Confidential 30
PhoxDem09.03 - Daughtercard Seagate Confidential 31
PhoxDem09.03 Electro-optical backplane Test daughter card power connectors Optical backplane receptacles Seagate proprietary Optical backplane receptacles Vita 66.1 Seagate Confidential 32
PhoxDem09.03 Waveguide flexes MT ferrule Providers Seagate Confidential 33
PhoxDem09.03 Seagate Confidential 34
sdd21(db) 0-10 -20-30 -40-50 -60-70 -80-90 Hitachi679G Straight Line gap 12.5 Layer2 Straight Line gap 15.5 Layer2 Straight Line gap 22.5 Layer9 Hitachi679G Curved Line gap 12.5 Layer9 Curved Line gap 15.5 Layer4 Curved Line gap 22.5 Layer4 IsolaFR408 Straight Line gap 12.5 Layer2 Straight Line gap 15.5 Layer2 Straight Line gap 22.5 Layer9 IsolaFR408 Cruved Line gap 12.5 Layer9 Curved Line gap 15.5 Layer4 Curved Line gap 22.5 Layer4 16inch group Frequency(GHz) HDPuG Optical Interconnect Project Largest industrial collaborative research study on polymer waveguide and high speed copper interconnect in electro-optical PCBs -100 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Seagate Confidential 35
HDPuG Optical Interconnect Project PCB backplane (copper only) Mixed signal waveguide/copper 1L Optical 14L copper Seagate Confidential 36
Multimode Optical Interconnect PhoxDem09.04 Object oriented, optically disaggregated converged data centre platform Seagate Confidential 37
Singlemode Optical Interconnect Glass waveguide backplane and silicon photonics transceivers and routers Seagate Confidential 38
Singlemode Optical Interconnect Singlemode optical PCB fibre-to-board couplers and board-to-board connectors Chip-to-board Fibre-to-board Board-to-board Fibre-to-board Seagate Confidential 39
PhoxTrot HyperRack Consolidated Data Centre Rack Seagate Confidential 40
Conclusion Migration of optical interconnect into the data centre system enclosure already underway Emerging technologies for system embedded optical interconnect including silicon photonics, MM and SM optical circuit boards Strong global photonics research and development activities to implement multimode and singlemode optical interconnect in future data centre systems Seagate Confidential 41
Richard Pitwon Photonics research and development richard.pitwon@seagate.com