While there may have been innovations in
DSP architectures since 1997, Shannon Capacity of CAT5/6 cables is a
theoretical limit, and is unaffected by an individual’s time horizon, or
implementation sophistication.
Sreen Raghavan
Vativ Technologies, Inc.
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Subject: [10GBASE-T] Reflections
Guys,
Nice to hear from a lot of the old crew that created the 1000BASE-T standard. I
think that you can all take a bow, judging from what is happening in the market
and the remarkable improvements in implementations achieved in three short
years. But no good deed goes unpunished, as they say, so you guys earned the
job (and created the need for) taking the next step up. Without a doubt, there
are big jumps in the performance demanded and we don't have the luxury that
1000BASE-T enjoyed, namely the introduction of coding into the design. That has
been done already. This time around, we have to take advantage of the residual
capacity of the cabling, which we barely touched.
On the other hand, you will agree that the levels of sophistication in analysis
and implementation of DSP based systems has also increased dramatically since
1997, when GigT started in earnest.
While I enjoyed fond memories of your recollections of what we knew (or
suspected) then and what we added later when we got smarter, it strikes me that
that history is relatively immaterial today. That was then and our current
circumstances are quite different. We now need to agree in the study group that
it is feasible to do 10Gig on some form of twisted pair cabling at the
desired length and go on to form a Task Force to do the hard work of coming to
agreement on the precise details of the signaling and channel specifications.
It is clear that the channel specifications as written in 11801 will have to be
modified and expanded for our use and installation qualification test
parameters will have to be defined. This is more or less what happened for
1000BASE-T and seems to me to be a normal and reasonable step. After all, why
should the cabling industry be expected to have already characterized cabling
for the use of a standard for which we are still in the Study Group phase? As
for installed cabling, we will see whether or how it may be qualified for 10G
as part of our effort.
I look forward to our meeting in Dallas and hope that we can get to work on a
PAR draft there.
George Eisler