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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Hitesh Ballani, Cambridge, GB;
Christian L. Belady, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Lisa Ru-Feng Hsu, Durham, NC (US);
Winston Allen Saunders, Seattle, WA (US);
Paolo Costa, London, GB;
Douglas M. Carmean, Seattle, WA (US);
Kai Shi, Cambridge, GB;
Charles Boecker, Ames, IA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system for interconnecting a plurality of computing nodes includes a plurality of optical circuit switches and a plurality of electrical circuit switches. A first network stage comprises a first plurality of circuit switches selected from among the plurality of optical circuit switches and the plurality of electrical circuit switches. Each computing node among the plurality of computing nodes is optically coupled to at least one of the first plurality of circuit switches. A second network stage comprises a second plurality of circuit switches selected from among the plurality of optical circuit switches and the plurality of electrical circuit switches. Each circuit switch among the first plurality of circuit switches is optically coupled to each circuit switch among the second plurality of optical circuit switches.