Demonstration of an ultra-low latency energy efficient internet for cloud computing

An Enhanced-Internet network which supports ´ultra-low-latency´ energy efficient communications for cloud services is demonstrated. The Enhanced-Internet combines several technologies: (i) two non-interfering traffic classes, the Guaranteed-Rate (GR) and Best-Effort (BE) classes, (ii) a flowbased resource-reservation signalling protocol for the GR class, (iii) a QoS-aware low-jitter router scheduling algorithm with 100% bandwidth-efficiency, and (iv) aggregation and smoothening of cloud traffic, to achieve exceptionally low latencies and high energy efficiencies. The Enhanced-Internet supports ultralow latency machine-to-machine communications, for automated financial trading systems. Current cloud data-centers and the Internet infrastructure operate at low efficiencies, resulting in excess energy costs of several $US Billion per year. The Enhanced- Internet improves the efficiency of the current infrastructure, thereby reducing energy costs. A Big Data/Exascale Cloud Computing system using the Enhanced-Internet can achieve significantly improved performance and energy-efficiency, by utilizing the idle-periods in data-centers. The demonstration will illustrate a saturated Enhanced-Internet network supporting one thousand traffic flows, each receiving essentially-perfect service, with very low latencies and very high energy-efficiencies.