Greater than 10 Mb/s long-reach point-to-point single pair Ethernet PHY call for interest

The following request for agenda time for a Greater than 10 Mb/s long-reach point-to-point single pair Ethernet PHY call for interest has been received from George Zimmerman. It will be discussed during the IEEE 802.3 July 2021 Plenary session.

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The work begun in the IEEE 802.3 Enhancements to Point-to-Point Single Pair Ethernet Study Group for a higher-speed long reach point-to-point single pair Ethernet has garnered significant interest in a variety of use cases for long reach at speeds above 10 Mb/s. The Study Group has also submitted an initial focused IEEE P802.3de "Enhancements to the MAC Merge function and the Time Synchronization Service Interface (TSSI) to include Point-to-Point 10 Mb/s Single Pair Ethernet" draft PAR for consideration at the July 2021 plenary session. Since approval of this PAR by the IEEE-SA Standards Board will result in the disbandment of the IEEE 802.3 Enhancements to Point-to-Point Single Pair Ethernet Study Group, this call for interest is to consider continuing the work investigating a potential project for one or more greater than 10 Mb/s point-to-point PHYs using single-pair media at reaches beyond the reach of the existing IEEE 802.3 single-pair PHYs at the same rate in a new Study Group.

The call for interest consensus building session will be held during the IEEE 802.3 Enhancements to Point-to-Point Single Pair Ethernet Study Group meeting on Wednesday the 21st of July at 1515 UTC (the study group meeting itself starts at 1400 UTC with other business).