Re: Renaming the WAN PHY
[Date: 03/24/2000 From Seto]
Bruce,
I completely agree.
Geoff was right when he tried to name it SONET-Lite, or something, in the
earlier stage of the 10GbE HSSG discussion.
Seto
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> Colleagues:
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> To follow up on the suggestion made by Jonathan during the New Mexico
> plenary, may I be so bold as to suggest that we change the name of the "WAN
> PHY" to something very simple like PHY with SONET framer.
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> We need to get the word WAN out of the name of the PHY
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> o Most common folk outside the esteemed IEEE process think long distance
> when they think WAN and on the basis of Paul Bottorf of Nortel,'s
> presentations the initial application of the WAN PHY would be for short
> links between collocated equipment often in the same room.
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> 2) There are ways to build MANs/WANs that do not require SONET. For 10GbE
> some of these MANs/WANs will use the LAN PHY and a 1550 PMD over dark fiber
> or dark wavelengths. The proof point for this is the 1000s of long distance
> 1310 nm 1550 nm 1000BASE-X GBICs that are being deployed today over dark
> fiber. The WAN PHY as stated in the goal does not address the total
> possible 10GBE WAN market and confuses people.. This makes it a bad name in
> my opinion
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> I do not think we necessarily need a motion to change the objective, but I
> think we need to choose our words carefully when we name the PHY that the
> objective signifies.
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> Bruce
> Cisco Systems
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