RE: Subject: Survey of lengths of installed optical fiber cable
Regarding this thread....
I would recommend that those interested in this topic first review the
minutes of the June and July meetings. This is the time frame where we
selected our set of objectives.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/public/june99/minutes_0699.pd
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http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/public/july99/minutes_0799.pd
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During that time there was significant discussion about shorter jumpers. As
you are aware, these did not make it into the objectives (less than 75%
support).
Two things should be clear:
1. That any of the PMD solutions proposed could be used for a short link.
2. That discussion about a short link optimized for distances less than the
objectives (i.e. not meeting any of the current fiber/distance objectives)
is likely to be considered out of order by the chair.
While I would certainly discourage anyone mucking around with the
objectives, it is certainly the right of any member to put forth a motion to
modify these. If this is not the intent, then let's get on with the work
that we have identified for ourselves. It is certainly sufficient for the
time at hand.
jonathan
p.s. This is not the place to talk or speculate about proprietary solutions.
jt
Jonathan Thatcher,
Chair, IEEE 802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
Principal Engineer, World Wide Packets
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Bynum [mailto:rabynum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 4:52 AM
> To: jay.hoge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: Re: Subject: Survey of lengths of installed optical
> fiber cable
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> Jay,
>
> Your comment was my understanding. I have since gotten the
> idea that perhaps 10GbE might be able to replace all of the
> proprietary
> interfaces with a common commodity interface. From the
> comment that Cory McCormick made, putting in new fiber for the higher
> bandwidth was not an issue. This leaves the members of the
> TF with the question: Do they want to standardize on a very
> short reach
> interface to give 10GbE the opportunity to consolidate all of
> the high bandwidth intra facility connections between same vendor
> equipment as well as different vendor equipment? There may
> be as much of an immediate market for 10GbE VSR as there is for 10GbE
> WAN. This may something to revisit at the meeting in two weeks.
>
> Thank you,
> Roy Bynum
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jay.hoge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Roy Bynum" <rabynum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Chris Simoneaux" <csimoneaux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> <stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 5:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Subject: Survey of lengths of installed optical
> fiber cable
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> > It seems to me that the links of which you speake are, by nature,
> > proprietary. If this is the case, interoperability isn't much of an
> > advantage.
> >
> > That being the case, I think people will design links which
> best fit the
> > idiosyncratic needs of their systems, be they short haul
> serial or parallel
> > links, rather than look at 10GBE for a solution.
> >
> >
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