  Passive optical networks (PON) technology has recently been proposed as a
solution for scalability, energy efficiency, high capacity, low cost,
flexibility and oversubscription issues in data centres. This paper
experimentally demonstrates and discusses the implementation of a server
centric PON based data centre architecture with high speed and reliability. The
architecture is set up using a set of servers grouped into racks directly
connected together and to the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) through gateway
servers. The switching and routing functionalities have been embedded into
servers using 4x10GE Xilinx NetFPGA. Flow continuity has been observed through
live video streaming using IP cameras transmitting over up to 110 km optical
connections through WDM nodes and the PON network.
