All,
I wanted to try and foster some discussion on the reflector
regarding objectives for the project to help all focus their planning of
presentations for March.
So what do we appear to have consensus on so
far?
a)
We are in a study group looking at 100GbE over
backplane and copper twin-ax
b)
Legacy support indicates broad market potential would
be aided by 4 lane solutions
What appears to need further consensus building? Well
the big ones would seem to be reach for both backplane and cu cabling
objectives.
So if we can combine where we appear to have consensus with
what we need to resolve, the following two statements could be used as
strawmans for objectives for the group to work towards (leaving the reach #’s
as variables for now):
·
Define a 4-lane 100 Gb/s PHY for operation over
copper traces on improved FR-4 for links consistent with lengths up to at
least “X” m.
·
Define a 4-lane 100 Gb/s PHY for operation over
copper twin-axial cables for links consistent with lengths up to at least “Y”
m.
Feedback?
John