Residential Ethernet – 08-31-05 meeting minutes

Location: Broadcom San Jose;

Date: 08/31/05

Participants:

Alexei Beliaev – Gibson

Dirceu Cavendish – NEC

George Classman – 

John Fuller – Independent

David James – Intel

Raghu Kondapalli – Marvel

Dennis Lou – Pioneer

Tom Mathey – Independent

Mike Teener – Broadcom

Fred Tucker – EchoStar

*Send email to dirceu@sv.nec-labs.com if you were at the meeting and are not included in the list.

-        David’s Proposal 2 – Non-TDM like scheduling for supporting isochronous traffic

o      Rate categorization of priorities

o      Difference between class B and C – deferred.

o      Shapers and pacers

§        Naming is not “universally accepted” vis-à-vis their description

〈       Shaper – contending with time – need credits earner against time

〈       Pacer – contending against each other (two flows only) – credits earned

o      Shaper state machine

§        Calculates timestamps for frames

o      Transmitter state machine

§        Line 10 – if no class A traffic is DUE to transmission, transmit one of them anyway – state machine enforces a MAX 75% usage of bandwidth by class A traffic.