Re: [HSSG] HSSG Reach Ad Hoc "Rides Again"

[John DAmbrosia <jdambrosia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

Thanks for bringing this up.  Further information on connector loss would be useful for this call.

 

John

 

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From: Chris Cole [mailto:chris.cole@FINISAR.COM]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 12:30 PM
To: STDS-802-3-HSSG@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: Re: [HSSG] HSSG Reach Ad Hoc "Rides Again"

 

During discussion of the 100GE SMF reach objective at the Atlanta meeting, an interesting new perspective was given on how optics are used in the data center. Specifically, it was suggested (for example by Ted Seely of Sprint) that the number of connectors used in typical connections is much higher then the 4 or 5 connectors assumed in SMF link budgets. For these applications, the availability of a 10km link budget (in the 10GBASE-LR standard) has allowed supporting this higher number of connectors over data center reaches shorter then 10km.

 

As part of the HSSG Reach Ad Hoc, it may be beneficial to quantify the distribution of number of connectors in links as part of the effort to quantify the distribution of link reaches. We may still choose to use 2dB as an allocation for connector loss (corresponding to 4 or 5 connectors) in SMF link budgets, but would use this additional information to determine the best reach objectives. Further, we may include informative information as part of the standard to give guidance on how long reach optics can be used for shorter reach applications requiring a large number of connectors.

 

Chris

 

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From: Andy Moorwood [mailto:amoorwood@EXTREMENETWORKS.COM]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 8:27 AM
To: STDS-802-3-HSSG@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: [HSSG] HSSG Reach Ad Hoc "Rides Again"

 

Colleagues,

At the Atlanta meeting several presentations were made in the area of requirements for, and relative cost of, reaches lower than 10km over single mode fiber.  In the spirit of promoting consensus building in the group John has asked me to organize a conference call so we can have further discussion prior to the interim meeting in January.

 

I will forward contact information to the reflector shortly but would ask those members interested in these issues to mark in their calendars  for a conference call at 9am to 11 am (U.S. Pacific time zone) on Thursday December 6^th.

 

Presentations from Atlanta may be found on the study group web site, links to some of the more relevant presentations are included here for convenience.

 

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/hssg/public/nov07/cole_01_1107.pdf

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/hssg/public/nov07/goergen_01_1107.pdf

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/hssg/public/nov07/cole_03_1107.pdf

 

 

For the December conf call it would really help the group if we could receive further contributions on :

a)       the need for a sub 10km SMF reach

b)       relative costing information  for the different reaches

 

 

As of now the agenda for the call is as follows

1. discussion of the reach and relative costing presentations made at Atlanta
2. discussion of any new material posted to the reflector
3. discussion of how to resolve

 

Many Thanks

Andy Moorwood