RE: [RPRWG] PHY independence
Hi, Mike
Thanks for your information. Got it.
Another question comes up. Does it make sense that RPR could be applied in Mbps levels (for example, SONET ring with OC-12, 622Mbps) as well? why are 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps concerned at this moment? Thanks.
Ti-Shiang
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From: ext Mike Takefman [mailto:tak@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 4:00 PM
To: Wang Ti-Shiang (NRC/Boston)
Cc: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [RPRWG] PHY independence
Ti-Shiang,
in theory RPR will run over many PHY layers as it is media independant. That being said
for every PHY layer a reconcilliation will be required. Our first PHYs will be
SONET/SDH and 1GE and 10GE.
I am aware of fiber, microware and copper medias are possible for some of the
Layer 1 technologies shown above.
mike
ti-shiang.wang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am new to RPR and not quite clear about PHY independence provided by RPR. Can I say that RPR can be applied to a ring built by several transmission media such as fiber, microwave, copper, etc? How does it work for the PHY-indep. in the MAC layer (or others)? Please be free to advise. Thanks.
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> Ti-Shiang
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