Re: Please help to clarify some things!
Roy,
Thank you for your reply. I think it shows the difference between what an
Ethernet person expects in the standard and what a real world installation
may be.
I purposely simplify the first drawing. Since the effect of a cable splicing
plan should be limited to a loss in power, nothing more. The protocol layer
does not see it. And the phy specification allows for such a lost.
I am trying to quantify the amount of build in support needed from HSSG-MAC
on your perceived application. So far I can see the following issues:
1. Bit Error Rate too high
2. Cable fault
3. Active Component failure
Since I am not a telecom person. Could you help to explain how do you
perceive a actual implementation is different from my third drawing. And any
other error you perceived will happen in a real installation other than the
3 mentioned above? I hope a picture of how it is done can help me and the
others to make a better judgement on what is needed on OAM&P.
If you want to, you may consider faxing me a sketch and I will put it in PDF
format to replace my third drawing with the proper terminology.
regards,
Henry Ngai
----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Bynum <rabynum@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Henry Ngai <hngai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Please help to clarify some things!
> Henry,
>
> In your document, your first and second drawings are somewhat correct. I
doubt
> that 10GbE would ever be implemented as you are showing it in your third
> drawing. In your first drawing, you need to add a fiber plant that has
things
> like splice points every 5 km at most, access to the fiber cable by people
that
> have nothing to do with your data, and other issues. The traditional
802.3 LAN
> environment was outgrown when full duplex 802.3 over optical transport was
> standardized. It is even possible to take full duplex 100BaseFX over WAN
> distances with optical converters that are sold by several different
vendors.
> As seen by individuals that are attempting to create manageable enterprise
> level data networks with GbE, full duplex 10Gb 802.3 is in need of
protocol
> level operations support functionality in order to grow to its true
potential.
>
> Thank you
> Roy Bynum
> MCI WorldCom
>
> Henry Ngai wrote:
>
> > Hello Roy,
> >
> > I have put together my thoughts on the need for HSSG Ethernet to support
> > WAN. Please take a look at my attached file and let me know what you
think.
> > It will help me greatly in understanding your need with 10G Ethernet.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Henry Ngai
> >
>
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> > Name: Oamp.pdf
> > Oamp.pdf Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf)
> > Encoding: base64
>