Patent ID: 11950304
Assignee: ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A server-to-server wireless datacenter network, comprising:
a plurality of adjacent rows of server racks in a rectangular pattern with aisles running between the plurality of adjacent rows, each server rack comprising a vertical stack of a plurality of servers, each one of the adjacent rows comprising a plurality of adjacent server racks having each server therein disposed in a vertical plane of the row, wherein each server is horizontally aligned with a corresponding server in an adjacent row, in a three-dimensional space; and
wireless links established along horizontal lines and vertical planes of the plurality of servers, the wireless links comprising a beam-steering directional transmitter and beam-steering directional receiver attached on a top of each server of the plurality of servers configured to provide direct server-to-server wireless gigabit speed communication in the horizontal direction and a beam-steering directional transmitter and beam-steering directional receiver attached on a side of each server in the vertical plane of the row of the plurality of servers configured to provide direct server-to-server wireless gigabit speed communication between servers disposed in the vertical plane of the row; wherein direct server-to-server wireless gigabit speed communication between any pair of servers can be provided in the three-dimensional space.