Re: [802.3BA] 802.3ba XR ad hoc next step concern
Scott,
I truly doubt the towel has been thrown in... reference
all the discussion related to this. :-)
The task force could continue to discuss this point,
but what I believe may be helpful is to have a starting reference point.
Once the task force has an SR
D1.0 specification in front of them, trade-offs such as the relative cost
impact of increasing the reach to be greater than 150 m or added an informative
annex on using EDC to extend the reach are simpler to consider.
Considering the task force is going to be reviewig D1.x for probably the next 5
to 6 months, there should be plenty of opportunities to discuss trade-offs, and
this is where the XR ad hoc can be helpful in keeping the discussion
focused.
IMHO, the lack of a starting reference point is
part of the reason the extended reach discussion hasn't been able to arrive at a
single recommended course of action and why there is some apprehension
around adding a new objective.
Thanks,
Brad
All,
I disagree with some premises that have been put
forward and feel that we need to proceed on the present course to defining how
to extend the reach beyond 100 meters. The time to throw in the towel has
not come.
Let's run through a little scenario. Joe the
installer needs to go 130 meters and begins plugging in the ends of the fiber to
different modules and a combination finally works and the link comes up.
The link works fine for a few months or even years and then the module
degrades a little (but is still within the 100 meter specification) and the
link begins to have bit errors. Joe the installer is long gone (or
should hide after the link fails) and nobody knows what
happened. Both modules still pass any tests based on the
standard, but the link is failing and no one is responsible.
The reason we have standards (like Geoff says) is
because we want reliable links to work all of the time over the lifetime of the
parts. When a link fails, we can determine the cause and have
responsibility. I agree that the links are defined conservatively and
will work longer most of the time, but I disagree with John's premise
that there is no value in the XR solution that goes significantly farther.
Responsible installers will rely on standards based parts to go the rated
distance. We have several ways we can make OM3 links work for
longer than 100 meters.
Do we have the difficult task of choosing only one way
to extend the link or can we talk about several ways to do this in an
informative annex? The hard part is choosing one solution because we have
so many camps with different solutions. The usual problem is that we have
no clear winner - no Usain Bolt - in the XR race beyond 100
meters.
TGIF,
Scott
Steve-
In answer to your question
Because it has
been the tradition of 802.3 (and I strongly believe a foundation of the success
of 802.3 in general) that we offer more to the market than just "overwhelming
odds" (quantified in the earlier message as 92% or only 11 times out of 12
tries). What we have worked to in 802.3 is significantly closer to "worst case
design" than that. We have argued over the years about what that has meant but
we have certainly never dipped that low.
What I believe that John has
argued for (and not unreasonably) is the following.
We provide assured
operation at 100 meters
If you want to go to 150 meters, the odds are very
strong that you can succeed as long as you are will to lower your expectations
from plug and chug to trying your way through a half dozen parts at each end in
order to get a set that works.
His thesis, as I understand it,
is:
1) It is not worth the extra investment (time and money both) to
get a different standard with the extra reach.
2) Even if we do #1,
the market won't pay anything for it. They will just go through the select and
try route in order to save the extra money and separate inventory
hassle.
Given the odds that it will work over 90% of the time, I would
agree.
Am I willing to reduce our customers' overall chance of success to
92%?
No !!
Sincerely,
Geoff Thompson
At 08:55 AM
8/21/2008 , Swanson, Steven E wrote:
John,
Thanks for all your work on this; I have to study it more
and would like to see the actual presentation but I would offer the following
comment:
If the
following statement is true, why do we have an objective of 100m rather than
150m?
"Do nothing to
the standard and when 150 m of OM3 or 250 m of OM4 is desired just plug in the
fiber. The odds are overwhelming that it will
work."
Thanks,
Steve
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Subject: [802.3BA] 802.3ba XR ad
hoc next step concern
Colleagues
I m concerned that the proposal
of creating a new objective is leading us into a train wreck. This is
due to my belief that it s very unlikely that 75% of the project members will
find this acceptable. This will be very frustrating for various reasons,
one of which, almost all the modules expected to be developed will easily
support the desired extended link reaches, will be discussed
below.
I don t want to wait until our next phone
conference to share this in the hope that we can make use of that time to
prepare a proposal for the September interim. I ll try to capture my
thoughts in text in order to save some time and avoid distributing a
presentation file to such a large distribution. I may have a
presentation by the phone conference.
Optical modules are
expected to either have a XLAUI/CLAUI interface or a PMD service interface,
PPI. Both are considered.
A previous presentation,
petrilla_xr_02_0708, http://ieee802.org/3/ba/public/AdHoc/MMF-Reach/petrilla_xr_02_0708.pdf
has shown that modules with XLAUI/CLAUI interfaces will support 150 m of OM3
and 250 m of OM4. These modules will be selected by equipment
implementers primarily because of the commonality of their form factor with
other variants, especially LR, and/or because of the flexibility the
XLAUI/CLAUI interface offers the PCB designer. Here the extended fiber
reach comes for no additional cost or effort. This is also true in PPI
modules where FEC is available in the host.
Everyone is
welcome to express their forecast of the timing and adoption of XLAUI/CLAUI
MMF modules vs baseline MMF modules.
To evaluate the base
line proposal for its extended reach capability, a set of Monte Carlo, MC,
analyses were run. The first MC evaluates just a Tx distribution against
an aggregate Tx metric. This is to estimate the percentage removed by
the aggregate Tx test. The second MC evaluates the same Tx distribution
in combination with an Rx distribution and 150 m of worst case OM3. The
third MC repeats the second but replaces the 150 m of OM3 with 250 m of worst
case OM4. Worst case fiber plant characteristics were used in all link
simulations.
The Tx distribution characteristics
follow. All distributions are Gaussian.
Min OMA, mean =
-2.50 dBm, std dev = 0.50 dBm (Baseline value = -3.0 dBm)
Tx tr
tf, mean = 33.0 ps, std dev = 2.0 ps (Example value = 35 ps)
RIN(oma), mean = -132.0 dB/Hz, std dev = 2.0 dB (Baseline value = -128 to -132
dB/Hz, Example value = -130 dB/Hz)
Tx Contributed DJ, mean =
11.0 ps, std dev = 2.0 ps (Example value = 13.0 ps)
Spectral
Width, mean = 0.45 nm, std dev = 0.05 nm (Baseline value = 0.65
nm).
Baseline values are from Pepeljugoski_01_0508 and where no
baseline value is available Example values from petrilla_02_0508 are
used.
All of the above, except spectral width, can be
included in an aggregate Tx test permitting less restrictive individual
parameter distributions than if each parameter is tested individually.
In this example distributions are chosen such that only the mean and one std
dev of the distribution satisfy the target value in the link budget
spreadsheet. If the individual parameter is tested directly to this
value the yield loss would be approximately 16%.
The Rx
distribution characteristics follow. Again, all distributions are
Gaussian.
Unstressed sensitivity, mean = -12.0 dBm, std dev =
0.75 dB (Baseline value = -11.3 dBm)
Rx Contributed DJ, mean =
11.0 ps, std dev = 2.0 ps (Baseline value = 13.0 ps)
Rx
bandwidth, mean = 10000 MHz, std dev = 850 MHz (Baseline value = 7500
MHz).
For the Tx MC, only 2% of the combinations would
fail the aggregate Tx test.
For the 150 m OM3 MC, only 2%
of the combinations would have negative link margin and fail to support the
150 m reach. This is less than the percentage of modules that would have
been rejected by the Tx aggregate test and a stressed Rx sensitivity test and
very few would actually be seen in the field.
For the 250
m OM4 MC, only 8% of the combinations would have negative link margin.
Here approximately half of these would be due to transmitters and receivers
that should have been caught at their respective
tests.
The above analysis is for a single lane. In
the case of multiple lane modules, the module yield loss will increase
depending on how tightly the lanes are correlated. Where module yield
loss is high, module vendors will adjust the individual parameter
distributions such that more than one std dev separates the mean from the
spread sheet target value. This will reduce the proportion of modules
failing the extended link criteria. Also, any correlation between lanes
results in a module distribution of units that are shipped having fewer
marginal lanes than where the lanes are independent.
So while there s a finite probability that a PPI
interface module doesn t support the desired extended reaches, the odds are
overwhelming that it does.
Then with all of one form
factor and more than 92% of the other form factor supporting the desired
extended reach, the question becomes, what s a rational and acceptable means
to take advantage of what is already available? A new objective
would enable this but, as stated above getting a new objective for this is at
best questionable. Further, it s expected that one would test to see
that modules meet the criteria for the new objective, set up part numbers,
create inventory, etc. and that adds cost. Finally, users, installers,
etc. are intelligent and will soon find this out and will no longer accept any
cost premium for modules that were developed to support extended reach - they
will just use a standard module. There s little incentive to invest in
an extended reach module development.
I ll make a modest
proposal: Do nothing just hook up the link. Do nothing to the standard
and when 150 m of OM3 or 250 m of OM4 is desired just plug in the fiber.
The odds are overwhelming that it will work. If something is really
needed in the standard, then generate a white paper and/or an informative
annex describing the statistical
solution.
Background/Additional
thoughts:
Even with all the survey results provided to
this project, it s not easy to grasp what to expect for a distribution of
optical fiber lengths within a data center and what is gained by extending the
reach of the MMF baseline beyond 100 m. Here s another
attempt.
In flatman_01_0108, page 11, there s a
projection for 2012. There for 40G, the expected adoption percentage of
links in Client-to-Access (C-A) applications of 40G is 30%, for
Access-to-Distribution (A-D) links, it is 30%, and for Distribution-to-Core
(D-C)links it is 20%. While Flatman does not explicitly provide a
relative breakout of link quantities between the segments, C-A, A-D & D-C,
perhaps one can use his sample sizes as an estimate. This yields for C-A
250000, for A-D 16000 and for D-C 3000. Combining with the above
adoption percentages yields an expected link ratio of C-A:A-D:D-C =
750:48:6.
Perhaps Alan Flatman can comment on how
outrageous this appears.
This has D-C, responsible for 1%
of all 40G links, looking like a niche. Arguments over covering the last
10% or 20% or 50% of D-C reaches does not seem like time well spent.
Even A-D combined with D-C, AD+DC, provides only 7% of the
total.
Similarly for 100G: the 2012 projected
percentage adoption for C-A:A-D:D-C is 10:40:60 and link ratio is
250:64:18. Here D-C is responsible for 5% of the links and combined with
A-D generates 25% of the links. Now the last 20% of AD+DC represents 5%
of the market.
Since the computer architecture trend
leads to the expectation of shorter link lengths and there are multiple other
solutions that can support longer lengths, activating FEC, active
cross-connects, telecom centric users prefer SM anyway, point-to-point
connections, etc., there is no apparent valid business case supporting
resource allocation for development of an extended reach
solution.