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• The emerging need for 100G

  That's a time-consuming process - you have to create baseline proposals, develop the spec, and get comments. We have to go through the document and make sure we got everything right.But, yes, we are hearing people say we need it now even though a…
  09 January 2007

  Tags: Sec • Delivery • Consuming • Youtube • Spec • Aggregation

• Aiming for a century

  The IEEE has bypassed options such as 40Gbit/s and picked 100G as its next spec - now all it has to do is figure out how to build it. The IEEE will work to standardise 100G Ethernet over distances as far as 6 miles over single-mode fibre optic…
  26 December 2006

  Tags: Ieee • Optical • Parallel • Task • Force • Links

• Preparing for 10Gig could be your New Year's resolution

  The final spec for 10Gig over copper is due within months, but the infrastructure is here already. They predict that the cost of 10Gig should fall considerably once the 10GBase-T spec for 10Gig over copper is finalised some time in the middle of 2006.
  02 January 2006

  Tags: Cable • Shape • Manufacturers • Bryan Betts • States • Noise

• 10Gig taxis for take-off

  Some have suggested that the emerging spec for 10Gig over 100m of copper UTP (namely 10GBase-T - there is already a short-range copper spec for clustering and the like, called 10GBase-CX4) could help accelerate things, but Garrison is sceptical.
  29 September 2005

  Tags: Edge • Vp • Ieee • Accelerate • Wait • Signs