Role of optical network infrastructure virtualization in data center connectivity and cloud computing

A Datacenter as a Service architecture utilizing coordinated virtualization of distributed datacenters and operator's optical network is proposed. Two Optical network virtualization methods and a datacenter composition mechanism are introduced and their performance is evaluated.

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