RE: WAN PHY name
How about EOS-PHY.....Ethernet Over SONET - PHY ?
Reguards.....Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Chang [mailto:edward.chang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 9:16 AM
To: Paul Bottorff; Gary Nicholl; jay.hoge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jonathan
Thatcher
Cc: HSSG_reflector (E-mail)
Subject: RE: WAN PHY name
Comment:
I agree that SONET is a very specific term which suggests meeting SONET
standard. If we use it loosely, we will create misleading the public
eventually.
It seems, so far, no on can come up a simple term to replace WAN-PHY.
Regards,
Edward S. Chang
NetWorth Technologies, Inc.
EChang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: (610)292-2870
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Bottorff
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:57 PM
To: Gary Nicholl; jay.hoge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jonathan Thatcher
Cc: HSSG_reflector (E-mail)
Subject: RE: WAN PHY name
Gary:
I agree. Using the word SONET in any part of the WAN-PHY name will confuse
the market. As you point out the WAN-PHY is not SONET compliant, can not be
tested as SONET, and therefore should not use the term SONET.
Cheers,
Paul
At 06:12 PM 4/3/00 -0400, Gary Nicholl wrote:
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>I agree with Jay.
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>I'm still having a difficult time with an interface that has SONET in it's
name, is based on SONET framing but that you can't test using a standard
SONET test-set. I think this will only lead to confusion.
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>The first thing that someone will do is connect it to a SONET test-set and
find that it fails all the jitter and clocking specifications.
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>Gary ...
>contains SONET in the name
>At 03:24 AM 4/3/00 , jay.hoge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>To repeat my earlier comment, I think that any mention of SONET is likly
to
>>lead to confusion.
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Paul A. Bottorff, Director Switching Architecture
Enterprise Solutions Technology Center
Nortel Networks, Inc.
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