Re: [802.3ae_Serial] Re: D4.3 comments
I don't think we actually have a problem with Draft 4.3 for the L budget. I think Tom is quoting from the informative example budget (which is no longer called the worst case budget.). If this is where he is getting the 9.4dB from. (and I think that is the only place in the standard it is mentioned.) it is a perfectly valid example budget with the footnote stating that it uses 3.0dB TDP. We could have used Tom's option 2 as a different example budget with the footnote changed to say using 3.2dB TDP, but I don't think option 1 is necessary i.e. now that we call this table an example budget I don't think the TDP used for the table has to equal the max value of TDP in the transmitter table.