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RE: [802.3ae] Wan Interface Sublayer




Mike,

The WAN PHY can be transported at the optical layer just like SONET or 
SDH.  Because it already has performance overhead, it does not need 
additional infrastructure, such as digital wrapper, to provide performance 
and provisioning support over the optical network, just like SONET or SDH.

Thank you,
Roy Bynum

At 11:10 AM 8/16/01 -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote:


> > From: Roy Bynum [mailto:rabynum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> > The 10GbE WAN PHY in internally rate controlled.  It uses a
> > 64/66 block
> > encoding to map into the WIS overhead.  The 10GbE WAN PHY is
> > designed to be
> > compatible with SONET and SDH.
>
>         Could I then route WIS over an arbitrary SONET path?  Is WIS
>transparent to a SONET network?  Is SONET delivery transparent to a WIS
>interface?
>
>
>         Thanks,
>
>/|/|ike