Re: 1000BASE-T PCS question
Jaime,
A point of clarification: Ethernet standards, at least the IEEE 802.3
ones, specify several BER objectives, usually depending on the specific
PHY. 1000BASE-X specifies a BER objective of 10 E-12. This PHY is based
on the Fibre Channel PHY which specifies an end-to-end system BER of 10
E-12. In practice, many of the optical links I've worked on over the
years exhibit BER well below this figure. 10 E-12 is generally a
cost/testability tradeoff floor where getting a transceiver vendor to
sell you a 10 E-13 instead of 10 E-12 transceiver may result in your
forking over a considerable additional chunk of change.
I'm assuming that testing transceivers at 10 E-13 may be a bit easier at
10 Gbps than at 1 Gbps. If this is true, this means that may be able to
set BER objectives for the 10 GbE more aggressively than for 1 GbE,
possibly closer to 10 E-13.
To put BER into perspective:
A system BER of 10 E-10 @ 10 Gbps = a bit error every 1 second.
A system BER of 10 E-12 @ 10 Gbps = a bit error every 1 minutes, 40
seconds.
A system BER of 10 E-13 @ 10 Gbps = a bit error every 16 minutes, 40
seconds.
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Jaime Kardontchik wrote:
>
> Ed,
>
> I think that other people might be better qualified than I to handle this
> question.
> My impression is that it would have been much more simpler if the group had
> been called "10-Gigabit-Ethernet" instead of "Higher-Speed Group". At some
> time in the future the group will have to decide what kind of standard to work
>
> on.
>
> Ethernet standards deliver a BER of 10^(-10).
>
> Jaime
>
> Jaime E. Kardontchik
> Micro Linear
> San Jose, CA 95131
> email: kardontchik.jaime@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Best Regards,
Rich
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