Embodiments may be generally direct to apparatuses, systems, method, and techniques to determine a configuration for a plurality of connectors, the configuration to associate a first interconnect protocol with a first subset of the plurality of connectors and a second interconnect protocol with a second subset of the plurality of connectors, the first interconnect protocol and the second interconnect protocol are different interconnect protocols and each comprising one of a serial link protocol, a coherent link protocol, and an accelerator link protocol, cause processing of data for communication via the first subset of the plurality of connectors in accordance with the first interconnect protocol, and cause processing of data for communication via the second subset of the plurality of connector in accordance with the second interconnect protocol.

An optical antenna may permit a duplex link formed by a transmit, Tx, beam towards a partner optical antenna and a receive, Rx, beam from the partner antenna. The antenna includes: a proximal path including a bidirectional waveguide for duplex propagation of the duplex link from a Tx source of the Tx beam and towards a receiver of the Rx beam; a distal path for a duplex propagation of the duplex link from/towards the partner optical antenna; a beam shaper positioned in the distal path to shape a duplex propagation pattern of the duplex link; and a controller controlling the beam shaper to adaptively shape the propagation pattern to enclose: a first position of the partner antenna at the transmission of the Rx beam; and a second of the partner antenna at the reception of the Tx beam.

Disclosed is a line card frame. The line card frame internally comprises a line card unit, a switching unit, and an optical fiber interface unit. The switching unit internally comprises a switching chip module and an onboard optical component module, the onboard optical component module being used for realizing mutual conversion of an optical signal and an electrical signal; an electrical signal interface of the onboard optical component module is connected to the switching chip module having an exchange routing function, and the switching chip module is connected to the line card unit by means of an electric connector; an optical signal interface of the onboard optical component module is connected to the optical fiber interface unit by means of an optical connector; and the optical fiber interface unit connects the optical signal to a cluster interface on a router panel by means of an optical fiber, and the cluster interface is used for realizing the cascading between different frames of a router. Also disclosed are a router applying the line card frame, a routing method, and a message processing method.

Technologies for allocating resources of managed nodes to workloads to balance multiple resource allocation objectives include an orchestrator server to receive resource allocation objective data indicative of multiple resource allocation objectives to be satisfied. The orchestrator server is additionally to determine an initial assignment of a set of workloads among the managed nodes and receive telemetry data from the managed nodes. The orchestrator server is further to determine, as a function of the telemetry data and the resource allocation objective data, an adjustment to the assignment of the workloads to increase an achievement of at least one of the resource allocation objectives without decreasing an achievement of another of the resource allocation objectives, and apply the adjustments to the assignments of the workloads among the managed nodes as the workloads are performed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

In the examples provided herein, a system has a plurality of arrayed waveguide gratings (AWG) having a plurality of input ports and a plurality of output ports. A signal within a given wavelength channel transmitted to one of the input ports of a given AWG is routed to one of the output ports of the given AWG based on a signal wavelength. The system also has a plurality of nodes, with each node comprising a set of components for each AWG that the node is coupled to. Each set of components comprises a plurality of optical transmitters, where each optical transmitter is tunable over multiple wavelength channels within a different wavelength band; a band multiplexer to multiplex the multiple wavelength channels within each different wavelength band; and a first output fiber to couple an output of the band multiplexer to one of the input ports of a first AWG.

The present disclosure relates to registration methods and devices. One example method includes obtaining, by a line card, line card information of the line card, the line card comprising a fabric interface chip optically interconnected to a switch fabric chip in at least one switch fabric card by using an optical fiber, and sending, by the line card, the line card information to the at least one switch fabric card through an optical interconnect path. The at least one switch fabric card registers the line card based on the line card information.

Technologies for switching network traffic include a network switch. The network switch includes one or more processors and communication circuitry coupled to the one or more processors. The communication circuitry is capable of switching network traffic of multiple link layer protocols. Additionally, the network switch includes one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed, cause the network switch to receive, with the communication circuitry through an optical connection, network traffic to be forwarded, and determine a link layer protocol of the received network traffic. The instructions additionally cause the network switch to forward the network traffic as a function of the determined link layer protocol. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Technologies for blind mating of optical connectors in a rack of a data center are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a sled can be slid into a rack and an optical connector on the sled will blindly mate with a corresponding optical connector on the rack. The illustrative optical connector on the sled includes two guide post receivers which mate with corresponding guide posts on the optical connector on the rack such that, when mated, optical fibers of the optical connector on the rack will be aligned and optically coupled with corresponding optical fibers on the optical connector of the sled.

Technologies for switching network traffic include a network switch. The network switch includes one or more processors and communication circuitry coupled to the one or more processors. The communication circuitry is capable of switching network traffic of multiple link layer protocols. Additionally, the network switch includes one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed, cause the network switch to receive, with the communication circuitry through an optical connection, network traffic to be forwarded, and determine a link layer protocol of the received network traffic. The instructions additionally cause the network switch to forward the network traffic as a function of the determined link layer protocol. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Technologies for switching network traffic include a network switch. The network switch includes one or more processors and communication circuitry coupled to the one or more processors. The communication circuitry is capable of switching network traffic of multiple link layer protocols. Additionally, the network switch includes one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed, cause the network switch to receive, with the communication circuitry through an optical connection, network traffic to be forwarded, and determine a link layer protocol of the received network traffic. The instructions additionally cause the network switch to forward the network traffic as a function of the determined link layer protocol. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.