Title :
Moving the decimal point: 10 Gigabit Ethernet applications and market opportunity
Abstract :
This presentation reviews the status of the IEEE 802.3ae 10 Gigabit Ethernet standards effort. It also explains why and where 10 Gigabit Ethernet will be used in local area, metropolitan area, and wide area networks over both dark fiber and in attachment to SONET/SDH infrastructure
Keywords :
IEEE standards; SONET; access protocols; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre LAN; synchronous digital hierarchy; telecommunication standards; wide area networks; 10 Gbit/s; Ethernet applications; Ethernet standards; IEEE 802.3ae; SONET/SDH infrastructure; dark fiber; local area networks; market opportunity; media access control protocol; metropolitan area networks; task force overview; wide area networks; Ethernet networks; High speed optical techniques; Media Access Protocol; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber devices; Physical layer; SONET; Spine; Switches; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 2000 Annual Meeting. LEOS 2000. 13th Annual Meeting. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Rio Grande
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5947-X
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2000.890791
