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10 Gigabit Ethernet Market and Technology Overview. David O’Leary Director, Consulting Engineering. 10 GbE Market Overview. Extension of existing Ethernet family of standards Another 10x jump for higher capacity Typical Ethernet applications at higher speed
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10 Gigabit EthernetMarket and Technology Overview David O’Leary Director, Consulting Engineering
10 GbE Market Overview • Extension of existing Ethernet family of standards • Another 10x jump for higher capacity • Typical Ethernet applications at higher speed • Also positioned as a MAN/WAN technology for use over dark fiber or SONET/SDH
10 GbE Applications: Intra-POP Connectivity Aggregation Layer Customer CPE IP Core Routers & Switches 10GE Intra-POP; SONET to WAN Optical Core 10 GbE
10 GbE Applications: Internet Peering ISP 1 10 GE (Private) ISP 4 ISP 2 10 GE 10 GE 10 GE 10 GE ISP 3
10 GbE Applications: Server Connections Customer Cages Co-Location Facility Layer 4-7 Switches, Servers Optical Core 10 GE Connections IP Core Direct Attachment
10 GbE Applications: MAN or WAN SONET or dark fiber 10 GbE
10 GbE Technology Overview • Retention of 802.3 MAC and frame format • 64 – 1518 Byte frames • Jumbo-frames not included in standard • No half duplex mode • different from other versions of Ethernet • No CSMA/CD on full duplex • Simultaneous sending and receiving at all times • Works with 802.1Q, 802.3ad, etc. • Fiber interfaces only – no copper versions • LAN PHY – 10Gb/s • WAN PHY – 9.29Gb/s (SONET framing overhead)
10GbE Terms and Acronyms • PHY – PHYsical Layer Device • PMD – Physical Media Dependent • WIS – WAN Interface Sublayer • SONET rate and framing adaption • WWDM – Wideband Wave Division Multiplexing • XGMII – 10Gb Media Independent Interface • XAUI - 10Gb Attachment Unit Interface • XENPAK electrical interface • Replace or extend XGMII interface (lower cost) • XENPAK • consortium agreement for interoperability of 10Gb transceiver modules • Keyed Floating Duplex SC optical connector • PHY and PMD independent
10GbE Media Types • 10GBase-SR – up to 300m over dark fiber • 10GBase-SW – up to 300m over SONET • Both 850nm, multimode fiber • 10GBase-LR – 2m-10km over dark fiber • 10GBase-LW – 2m-10km over SONET • Both 1310nm, single mode fiber • 10Base-ER – 2m – 40km over dark fiber • 10Base-EW – 2m – 40km over SONET • Both 1550nm, single mode fiber • 10GBase-LX4 – 4 parallel wavelengths over single multi- or single-mode fiber pair at 1310nm
802.3ae Architectural Components Full Duplex 802.3 Media Access Control (MAC) 10Gb Media Independent Interface (XGMII) or 10Gb Attachment Unit Interface (XAUI) Serial WAN PHY 64B/66B + WIS Serial LAN PHY 64B/66B WWDM LAN PHY 8B/10B Serial PMD 1310nm Serial PMD 850nm Serial PMD 1550nm Serial PMD 850nm Serial PMD 1550nm Serial PMD 1310nm WWDM PDM 1310nm From: 10GE Alliance Technology Overview White paper
Standardization Status and Schedule • IEEE 802.3ae Working Group • Work began in 1999 • Project approved in January, 2000 • Currently at “Sponsor ballot” status • See IEEE web page for gory process details • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/rules/ • Draft 4.3 is most current • Continuing to resolve various technical and editorial comments • Significant changes unlikely at this point • Final Standard quite likely in 2002 • Tentative June 13th ratification
Interoperability Status • May ’02 NetWorld+ Interop network test • 13 companies participated with 19 devices • Variety of switches, test equipment, fiber and components were included in the network • 4 of 7 Media types included • Chip level interconnect (XAUI) also tested http://www.10gea.org/10gea_pr_050702.pdf
Summary and Conclusions • 10 Gigabit Ethernet is viable now • Standard is basically complete • Products are shipping • Switch and router interfaces • Test equipment • As with all new technology: • Test for interoperability, check interoperability test results (UNH IOL, Interop, etc.) • Test for performance (interface and system)
Reference sites http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/index.html (standard status, meeting minutes) http://www.10gea.org http://www.ethermanage.com/ethernet/10gig.html http://www.iol.unh.edu/training/index.html (good technical tutorials on MAC, fault signaling, etc.) http://www.xenpak.org/ http://www.sdsc.edu/10GigE/