Connected Planet

…Internet2 and ESnet to complete the world’s first transcontinental deployment of 100Gb/s coherent technology. Built on Ciena’s 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, the new 8.8 Terabit per second network, equipped with 100Gb/s optical backbone connections, operates between New York, Washington D.C., Cleveland…

…recognition that close collaboration was mutually beneficial, has led IEEE and ITU to agree a common mapping between the IEEE P802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s standard and the ITU-T G.709 optical network standard. I have no doubt that the scalability provided by this excellent example of standards collaboration…

… “As Ethernet increasingly becomes the foundation for high-capacity networks, a highly-resilient core optical network scalable to beyond 100Gb/s per channel will be critical to accommodate the growth in bandwidth-intensive applications carried across BoSSNET and other advanced networks,&rdquo…

New Electronics

…transmitted multiple wavelengths of light over a single fiber. Multiple high-bit rate data streams of 2.5 Gb/s, 10 Gb/s and, more recently, 40 Gb/s and 100Gb/s could be multiplexed through divisions of several wavelengths. And so was born Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM). CWDM - Coarse Wavelength Division…

…Std 802.3ba includes 40GbE over a backplane, there is no corresponding backplane version for 100GbE.  This is being addressed by a new “100Gb/s Ethernet Electrical Backplane and Twinaxial Copper Cable Assemblies Study Group” (see http://www.ieee802.org//3/100GCU/index.html).  There…