Re: SONET/Ethernet clock tolerance
Osamu:
A major difference between T1X1.5 and 802.3ae is that T1X1.5 is encoding
over SONET, supporting all SONET clock, jitter, and management
requirements, while 10 GigE WAN-PHY uses Ethernet compatible timing. This
makes these two standards very different. It also address the issue of
having a simple low cost WAN access media (10 GigE) and at the same time
having a full fledged SONET compliant version.
Cheers,
Paul
At 02:24 PM 3/31/00 +0900, Osamu ISHIDA wrote:
>
>Roy,
>
>I think this is one of the biggest inter-culture gap between LAN and
>traditional (or Telecom) WAN.
>
>At 8:35 PM -0600 00.3.30, Roy Bynum wrote:
>> I am not sure why you are concerned about the regenerators budget timing
>> specifications. Loop timed or derived timed systems run on the clock
>> specification of the incoming clock.
>
>In datacom regenerators or media converters, they can easily re-clock
>with its local clock source by simply inserting/removing IDLE character.
>Hence they worry about the jitter specification only between each two
>regenerators. This makes their PLL design very easily and inexpensive.
>
>In Telecom world, on the other hand, we must be SYNCHRONOUS once we
>have packed the SONET frame. This means SONET regenerators have to
>re-use the upstream incoming clock for the downstream signal to
>transmit. This makes our PLL design very difficult, since we have to
>worry about jitter transfer at each regenerator and about its
>accumulation all over the regenerator chain. I know that many
>traditional SONET regenerators even don't use PLL to meet this stringent
>jitter transfer specifications; they use more expensive SAW filter to
>extract the incoming clock. Please consult with ITU-T Recommendation
>G.958 Clause 9.3: Jitter performance.
>
>Once again, I agree that SONET-compliant PHY makes sense since it can be
>connected directly to install-base SONET regenerators. Here I support
>Nortel's T1X1.5 proposal (Ether on SONET) since I have no other choice
>at present. (Or will anyone propose 64/66 on full-SONET?)
>
>I don't believe SONET-framing make sense just for the OAM&P signaling
>to Ethernet Line Terminating Equipment (ELTE). SONET framing is
>optimized for SYNCHRONOUS transport systems, and hence we should pay
>too heavy tax (read it pointer manipulation, SONET re-framing, or extra
>buffers) when we want to change our clock for relaxing the jitter budget.
>
>This is the background of my 10GENIE proposal (Layer-1 signaling in IPG)
>at Albuquerque. I hope to see brand-new WAN for datacom, since I believe
>this is the most economical way to utilize our fiber networks.
>
>Best Regards,
>Osamu Ishida
>
>
>
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