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[802.3_400G] Applications Ad hoc Teleconference Meeting Notes, Oct 9



Applications Ad hoc

Teleconference / Webex

Oct 9, 2013

Meeting started at 11:05am EDT

Chair / Minutes – John DÁmbrosia, Dell

 

Webpage for presentations - http://www.ieee802.org/3/400GSG/public/adhoc/app/index.shtml

 

Agenda and General Information (http://www.ieee802.org/3/400GSG/public/adhoc/app/agenda_app_01_1013.pdf)

·         Chair thanked Hugh Barrass, Cisco for hosting teleconference / webex

·         Chair displayed guidelines for IEEE-SA Meetings

 

Presentation#1- Dale Murray, LightCounting

“Ethernet Deployment from an Optical Module Perspective” (http://www.ieee802.org/3/400GSG/public/adhoc/app/murray_app_01a_1013.pdf)

·         Presentation is specific to optical modules

 

Presentation #2 – Brad Booth, Microsoft

“Öbjectives to Support Cloud Scale Data Center Design”

http://www.ieee802.org/3/400GSG/public/adhoc/app/booth_app_01_1013.pdf

·         Presenter noted he intends to give presentation in November, and is asking any supporters to contact him.

 

Presentation #3 – Andy Moorwood, Infinera

“Early Market PMD Types for Core Router to Transport Interconnect”

http://www.ieee802.org/3/400GSG/public/adhoc/app/moorwood_app_01_1013.pdf

·         Discussion regarding whether objectives should be distance or loss based. 

·         Chair expressed concern that trying to come up with a loss based objective would be challenging in Study Group phase, as there is typically significant debate regarding these budgets.  It was noted that some debates are already starting to happen.

·         Individuals from end user companies expressed confidence that they could deal with objectives that are distance based, as they understand dealing with the inherent optical budgets.

·         Chair stated that if there isn’t agreement on a reach objective with specific numbers that as a minimum it was important to resolve the form of the objective in November.

 

Presentation #4 – John DÁmbrosia, Dell

Objective Considerations: Given Today’s Data Center Environment

http://www.ieee802.org/3/400GSG/public/adhoc/app/dambrosia_app_01_1013.pdf

·         It was noted that breakout functionality just happened during 802.3ba, and that an objective might be a good way to remind the group of the importance of enabling it.

·         Discussion regarding the form of the objective.

·         The following was suggested during discussion

o   Provide appropriate support for breakout functionality to 40G and / or 100G.

·         Individuals expressed concern about unintended consequences, and wanted to see the objective in writing to enable further debate on the reflector.

 

Chair announced he would review schedule to see if there was time to have another call prior to the Nov Plenary, and would announce it on the reflector.

 

Attendees

John D’Ambrosia, Dell Inc

Andy Moorwood, Infinera

Peter Anslow, Ciena

Hugh Barrass, Cisco

Toshiki Tanaka, Fujitsu

Peter Stassar, Huawei

Ray Nering, Cisco

Dave Chalupsky, Intel

Jan Filip, Maxim

Alan Tipper, Semtech

Rich Mellitz, Intel

Tom Issenhuth, Microsoft

Brad Booth, Microsoft

Haoyu Song, Huawei

Brian Welch, Luxtera

Umnov Alexander, Fujitsu

Randy Rannow, APIC

Martin Carroll, Verizon

David Ofelt, Juniper

Megha Shanbhag, TE Connectivity

Matt Brown, APM

CK Wong, FCI

Robert Lingle, OFS

Dale Murray, LightCounting

Derek Cassidy, BT

Mike Dudek, QLogic

Piers Dawe, Mellanox

Scott Kipp, Brocade

Rick Rabinovich, Alcatel Lucent

Tsutsumi Satoshi, Hitachi

Eric Hall, Aurrion

Tom McDermott, Fujitsu

Tomoo Takahara, Fujitsu

Xiaolu Song, Huawei

Stephen Docking, PMC-Sierra

Dan Dove, Independent

Jeff Slavick, Avago

Gary Nicholl, Cisco

Chris Cole, Finisar

Keisuke Kojima, Merl

Scott Sommers, Molex

Paul Mooney, Spirent

Masashi Kono, Hitachi

Tongtong Wang, Huawei

Zengli, Huawei

Zhongfeng Wang, Broadcom

Wenbin Yang, Huawei