Optical switches operate purely at the physical layer of the network, meaning they are concerned only with the physical path of the light beam. This design enables end-to-end optical signal transmission, avoiding the conversion between electrical and optical signals at the switch port level. Dater centers (DCs), consisting of tens thousands of servers connected by large switching networks, provide the infrastructure for online applications and services such as cloud computing, social networks, file storage, and web search.
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