Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Ethernet continues its inexorable growth

Recently, the IEEE announced the formation of a study group to look into how to make 400 Gbps ethernet work.  Good timing on a recent Bell Labs announcement Not only have they demonstrated 400 Gbps transmission, but it was done over a distance of 12,800km!! The article doesn't specifically mention, but strongly implies, that this distance was un-amplified which is simply amazing.

This is being announced as 100Gbps adoption is ramping up, both commercially (CenturyLink and Verizon) and in the research networks (Internet2 & ESnet and OARnet as examples).

Different pluggables for 100G ethernet.

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