Re: Going the distance

[pbottorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Bottorff)]

Bruce:

I support your outlook. We already have 5-10 km with gigabit. Supporting
these distances is necessary to support the installed base. Since the
technology cut-off point is around 20 km and since a standard MAN distance
is 15 km I'd prefer a slightly more aggressive objective of 15 km. This
would still give reasonable design margin. I also believe lower cost
technology exits below 2.5 km motivating a 2 km specification. We could
either specify a single 15 km objective which covers all the applications
with a higher component cost or 2 km and 15 km each with a different price
point.

I would like to see further extension into the MAN. GigE is selling day
with reaches over 50 km. The next standard distance is 40 km. I've heard
this distance was chosen to match the spacing of microwave towers. With the
40 km distance I believe we would have all that is necessary to build Metro
networks. 

The three standard distances on SMF would be 2, 15, and 40 km. Each of
these ranges I believe falls into a different technology with a different
price point. If anyone has a technology which can do all three at the 2 km
price then all the better.

Paul

At 09:13 AM 6/30/99 -0700, Bruce_Tolley@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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>The point has been made before that today customers are already going 5 to
10 Km
>with 1000BASE-LX.  There should be no debate that it is a market
requirement to
>go 5 to 10 km with 10 GbE.
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>While I am willing to consider accepting  a conservative 2 to 3 km goal as
the
>official goal of the project,  we need to acknowledge that this is a
>conservative goal and, as we get on with the work of the project , we should
>investigate whether we can stretch this goal..
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>Bruce Tolley
>3Com Corporation
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>Rich Taborek <rtaborek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on 06/29/99 05:01:32 PM
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>Please respond to rtaborek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>Sent by:  Rich Taborek <rtaborek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>To:   Howard Frazier <hfrazier@xxxxxxxxx>, HSSG <stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx>
>cc:    (Bruce Tolley/HQ/3Com)
>Subject:  Re: Going the distance
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>Howard,
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>I will gladly accept your suggestion of removing the portion of the
>motion in parenthesis as a  friendly amendment post-haste given your
>support of this motion as a seconder.
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>- Rich
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>Howard Frazier wrote:
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>> The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of adopting the
>> 802.3z link distance objectives for 10 Gig. We should remember that
>> we are still in the study group phase, trying to scope out a project.
>> We can always adjust the objectives later.
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>> Let me therefore state my support for Rich's proposed motion:
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>> > "Support the premises cabling plant distances as specified in
>> > ISO/IEC 11801"
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>> > The distances supported in ISO/IEC 11801 are:
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>> > 100 m for horizontal cabling (applicable to copper, MMF, SMF)
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>> > 550 m for vertical cabling: (applicable to SMF and possibly MMF)
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>> > 2-3 km for campus cabling: (applicable to SMF)
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>> Rich, I would encourage you to drop the parenthesis.
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>> If we adopt this objective, we can make progress on the rest of the
>> work we need to do as a study group.  As was demonstrated in 802.3z,
>> we will need to review the objectives periodically, and revise them
>> if there is consensus to do so.
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>> Howard Frazier
>> Cisco Sytems, Inc.
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