Re: Unified PMD vs. Unified PHY
Rich,
By UniPHY, are you referring to Frazier's specific proposal, or a more general
unified phy?
The proposal presented by H. Frazier glossed over many details of the
interworking --
and we all know that without the details, almost anything that has Unification
as a keyword sounds good. And of course, given *no* additional constraints about
cost,
compatibility with existing infrastructure, and bandwidth efficiency, a "uniphy"
sounds great. But it is only with these additional constraints that the question
makes sense.
Regards,
Tom Truman
Rich Taborek wrote:
>
> Bruce,
>
> Well said! This was also my interpretation of the survey results. If there were
> only one question on the survey, UniPHY vs. separate LAN and WAN PHY, I believe
> that the survey results would be the same (i.e. strongly in favor of a UniPHY).
>
> Best Regards,
> Rich
>
> --
>
> Bruce Tolley wrote:
> >
> > At 08:33 AM 3/14/00 -0600, Roy Bynum wrote:
> > > I think that the original compromise and
> > >the objectives as stated are correct, there needs to be seperate LAN and WAN
> > >PHYs.
> >
> > Roy:
> >
> > I think in the first part of your statement you hit the nail on the head. Goal #9 (Define two families of PHYs) was a compromise that came out of several meetings that was aided by the bridge diagram originally proposed by Howard Frazier.
> >
> > Many folks have since expressed displeasure with the idea of a bridge but the picture gave the members of the study group a way to understand and bound the problem.
> >
> > The goal of two PHYs agreed upon in York was as much political statement as it was a technical statement. There was a strong feeling up to the meeting in York of the need to limit the problem, define the goals, and get on with the work.
> >
> > It was always clearly stated that the goals were not written in stone and we might come back to revise them.
> >
> > Given the basis of the findings from survey conducted by Jonathan, I conclude that there is strong support among the members of the task force to seriously investigate the concept of the UniPHY.
> >
> > Bruce
>
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