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Encyclopedia > 10 Gigabit Ethernet

10 Gigabit Ethernet or 10GbE or 10 GigE is the most recent (as of 2006) and fastest of the Ethernet standards. It defines a version of Ethernet with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbit/s, ten times as fast as Gigabit Ethernet. 10GbE over fiber and InfiniBand "like" copper cabling are specified by the IEEE 802.3-2005 standard. 10GbE over twisted pair has been released under the IEEE 802.3an amendment. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ... A gigabit per second (gbps or gbit/s) is a unit of data transmission equal to 1,000 megabits per second or 1,000,000 kilobits per second or 1,000,000,000 bits per second. ... Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second, as defined by the IEEE 802. ... The panel of an InfiniBand switch InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link primarily used in high-performance computing. ... IEEE 802. ... 25 Pair Color Code Chart 10BASE-T UTP Cable Twisted pair cabling is a common form of wiring in which two conductors are wound around each other for the purposes of cancelling out electromagnetic interference known as crosstalk. ...


10 Gigabit Ethernet abandons half duplex links and repeaters (and the CSMA/CD that goes with them) in favor of a system of purely full duplex links connected by switches as was already the normal practice with gigabit Ethernet. A network switch is a computer networking device that connects network segments. ...

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10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch

As of 2007 10 Gigabit Ethernet is very new, and it remains to be seen which of the standards will gain commercial acceptance. The 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard encompasses a number of different physical layer (PHY) standards. Each physical port in a device can support any of the many different modules that support different LAN or WAN PHY standards. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... PHY is a generic electronics term refering to a special electronic integrated circuit or functional block of a circuit that provides physical access to a digital connection cable. ...

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Fiber

Optical transceivers are interconnected with a host device, by either an IEEE 802.3 Clause 48 8B-10B 4 channel parallelized bridge or another Clause 49 bridge. (XENPAKs, X2s, and XPAKs use the Clause 48 conversion and XFPs use a straight Clause 49). The XENPAK Multisource Agreement (MSA), instigated by Agilent Technologies and Agere Systems, defines a fiber-optic transceiver module which conforms to the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) standard as laid down by the IEEE 802. ... XFP is a standard for serial fiber optic transceivers that allow transfer rates up to 10 Gbit/s. ...


LAN PHY

The most common optical variety is referred to as LAN PHY, used for connecting directly between routers and switches. Although called LAN, this can be used with 10GBase-LR and -ER up to 80 km. LAN PHY uses a line rate of 10.3125 Gbit/s and a 64B/66B encoding. In data networking and transmission, 64B/66B is a line code that transforms 64-bit data to 66-bit line code to achieve DC-balance and bounded disparity, and yet provide enough state changes to allow reasonable clock recovery. ...


10GBASE-SR

10GBASE-SR ("short range") is designed to support short distances over deployed multi-mode fiber cabling, it has a range of between 26 m and 82 m depending on cable type. It also supports 300 m operation over new, 50 μm 2000 MHz·km multi-mode fiber (using 850 nm). See Single-mode optical fiber ...


10GBASE-LRM

10GBASE-LRM, (Long Reach Multimode) also known as 802.3aq, is a newly ratified standard[1] which supports distances up to 220 m on FDDI-grade 62.5 µm multi-mode cable originally installed in the early 1990s for FDDI and 100BaseFX networks. 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (Redirected from 100BaseFX) 100BASE-FX is a version of fast ethernet over optical fibre. ...


10GBASE-LR

10GBASE-LR is a Long Range Optical technology delivering serialized 10 gigabit Ethernet over a 1310 nm connection on single-mode fiber via IEEE 802.3 Clause 49 64B-66B Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS). The Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) further helps to define physical layer specifications for ethernet. ...


Single-mode optical cabling is used to interconnect transceivers at a distance spaced at 10 km, but it can often reach distances of up to 25 km with no data loss.


10GBASE-ER

10GBASE-ER ("extended range") supports distances up to 40 km over single-mode fiber (using 1550 nm).


10GBASE-ZR

Recently, several manufacturers have introduced 80 km-range ER pluggable interfaces under the name 10GBASE-ZR. This 80 km PHY is not specified within the IEEE 802.3ae standard and manufacturers have created their own specifications based upon the 80 km PHY described in the OC-192/STM-64 SDH/SONET specifications. OC-192 (Optical Carrier 192) is a fiber optic network line with a SONET rate of 9953. ... SDH may refer to: [[Social Democrats of Croatia]] Subdural hematoma Society for Digital Humanities Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, see Subtitle (captioning) The Shubnikov-de Haas effect, also see Fermi surface Saradhna, a railway station in India Category: ... Synchronous Optical Networking, commonly known as SONET, is a standard for communicating digital information over optical fiber. ...


It is not yet known whether or not a specific specification will be added to cover the ZR PHY.


10GBASE-LX4

10GBASE-LX4 uses coarse wavelength division multiplexing to support ranges of between 240 m and 300 m over deployed multi-mode cabling. This is achieved through the use of four separate laser sources operating at 3.125 Gbit/s in the range of 1300nm on unique wavelengths. This standard also supports 10 km over single-mode fiber. In telecommunications wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes several optical carrier signals on a single optical fibre by using different wavelengths (colours) of laser light to carry different signals. ... In telecommunication, a single-mode optical fiber is an optical fiber in which only the lowest order bound mode can propagate at the wavelength of interest. ...


WAN PHY

10GBASE-SW, 10GBASE-LW, 10GBASE-EW, and 10GBASE-ZW are varieties that use the WAN PHY, designed to interoperate with OC-192/STM-64 SDH/SONET equipment using a light-weight SDH/SONET frame running at 9.953 Gbit/s. WAN PHY is used when an enterprise user wishes to transport 10G Ethernet across telco SDH/SONET or previously installed wave division multiplexing systems without having to directly map the Ethernet frames into SDH/SONET. The WAN PHY variants correspond at the physical layer to 10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-ER and 10GBASE-ZR respectively, and hence use the same types of fiber and support the same distances. There is no WAN PHY standard corresponding to 10GBASE-LX4 and 10GBASE-CX4 since the original SONET/SDH standard requires a serial implementation. OC-192 (Optical Carrier 192) is a fiber optic network line with a SONET rate of 9953. ... SDH may refer to: [[Social Democrats of Croatia]] Subdural hematoma Society for Digital Humanities Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, see Subtitle (captioning) The Shubnikov-de Haas effect, also see Fermi surface Saradhna, a railway station in India Category: ... Synchronous Optical Networking, commonly known as SONET, is a standard for communicating digital information over optical fiber. ... SDH may refer to: [[Social Democrats of Croatia]] Subdural hematoma Society for Digital Humanities Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, see Subtitle (captioning) The Shubnikov-de Haas effect, also see Fermi surface Saradhna, a railway station in India Category: ... Synchronous Optical Networking, commonly known as SONET, is a standard for communicating digital information over optical fiber. ... SDH may refer to: [[Social Democrats of Croatia]] Subdural hematoma Society for Digital Humanities Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, see Subtitle (captioning) The Shubnikov-de Haas effect, also see Fermi surface Saradhna, a railway station in India Category: ... Synchronous Optical Networking, commonly known as SONET, is a standard for communicating digital information over optical fiber. ... The original version of this article was based on FOLDOC, with permission In telecommunications wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes several optical carrier signals on a single optical fibre by using different wavelengths (colours) of laser light to carry different signals. ... SDH may refer to: [[Social Democrats of Croatia]] Subdural hematoma Society for Digital Humanities Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, see Subtitle (captioning) The Shubnikov-de Haas effect, also see Fermi surface Saradhna, a railway station in India Category: ... Synchronous Optical Networking, commonly known as SONET, is a standard for communicating digital information over optical fiber. ...


Copper

10GBASE-CX4

10GBASE-CX4 — also known by its working group name 802.3ak — transmits over 4-lanes in each direction over copper cabling similar to the variety used in InfiniBand technology. It is designed to work up to a distance of 15 m (49 feet). This technology has the lowest cost per port of all 10Gb interconnects, at the expense of range. Each device capable of supporting a 10GbE module uses some MSA (Multi-Source Agreement) to provide the actual module connectivity within the device to the outside connector. XENPAK, X2, and XPAK connectors all fit into a standard MSA pinout. CX4 modules exist at least in the XENPAK and X2 variety, and possible XPAK, although the smaller size makes this configuration more difficult. Each lane of the copper carries 3.125 Gbaud of signaling bandwidth. It is the job of the 802.3ae Clause 48 protocol to manage and synchronize the data flowing between these 4 channels; this functionality is maintained in the PCS. Compare to 10GBASE-R devices, which use the Clause 49 protocol. Clause 48 uses an 8 to 10 bit conversion to accommodate better line signaling, but Clause 49 uses a 64 to 66 bit conversion for this accommodation, which leaves the actual overhead for signaling much tighter than the Clause 48. The panel of an InfiniBand switch InfiniBand is a switched fabric communications link primarily used in high-performance computing. ... The XENPAK Multisource Agreement (MSA), instigated by Agilent Technologies and Agere Systems, defines a fiber-optic transceiver module which conforms to the 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) standard as laid down by the IEEE 802. ...


10GBASE-Kx

Backplane Ethernet — also known by its working group name 802.3ap — is used in backplane applications such as blade servers and routers/switches with upgradable line cards. Kx implementations are required to operate in an environment comprising up to 40 inches of copper printed circuit board with two connectors. The standard provides for two different implementations: 10GBASE-KR and 10GBASE-KX4. 10GBASE-KR uses the same coding as the 10GBASE-LR/ER/SR. It also defines an optional layer of Forward Error Correction and an autonegotiation protocol for setting the level of preemphasis based equalization. 10Gbase-KX4 is virtually identical with 10GBase-CX4. Implementations of both variants of 802.3ap are supposed to be backwards compatible with 1000Base-X serial implementations through autonegotiation. A backplane is a circuit board (usually a printed circuit board) that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus. ... Telecomunications The Line Card is an electronic printed circuit board in an access network element of a telecommunication network. ... In telecommunication, forward error correction (FEC) is a system of error control for data transmission, whereby the sender adds redundant data to its messages, which allows the receiver to detect and correct errors (within some bound) without the need to ask the sender for additional data. ... In processing electronic audio signals preemphasis refers to a system process designed to increase, within a band of frequencies, the magnitude of some (usually higher) frequencies with respect to the magnitude of other (usually lower) frequencies in order to improve the overall signal-to-noise ratio by minimizing the adverse... For information about Canadas fiscal transfer system, see Equalization payments. ...


10GBASE-T

10GBASE-T, or IEEE 802.3an-2006, is a standard released in 2006 to provide 10 gigabit/second connections over conventional unshielded or shielded twisted pair cables, over distances up to 100 m.[2] As of 2007, products remain scarce, but new silicon is expected to make 10GBASE-T switches available in 2008 at a price of less than $500 per port. Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 25 Pair Color Code Chart 10BASE-T UTP Cable Twisted pair cabling is a common form of wiring in which two conductors are wound around each other for the purposes of cancelling out electromagnetic interference known as crosstalk. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...


Connectors

10GBASE-T uses 650 MHz versions of the venerable IEC 60603-7 connectors (a.k.a. RJ-45) already widely used with Ethernet. Cat5 cables with RJ-45 connectors, wired to EIA/TIA-568B An RJ-45 connector that has yet to be crimped onto a cable RJ-45 (Registered Jack 45) is a physical interface often used for terminating twisted pair type cables. ...


Cables

10GBASE-T will work up to 55 metres (180 ft) with existing Category 6 cabling. In order to allow deployment at the usual 100 metres (328 ft), the standard uses a new partitioned augmented Category 6 or "6a" cable specification, designed to reduce crosstalk between UTP cables (formally known as "alien crosstalk"), which, as of August 2007 is still in draft status. Category 6 cable, commonly referred to as Cat 6, is a cable standard for Gigabit Ethernet and other network protocols that is backward compatible with the Category 5/5e and Category 3 cable standards. ... Category 6 cable, commonly referred to as Cat 6, is a cable standard for Gigabit Ethernet and other network protocols that is backward compatible with the Category 5/5e and Category 3 cable standards. ... Look up crosstalk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... August 2007 is the eighth month of that year. ...


Electrical characteristics

The 802.3an standard defines the wire-level modulation for 10GBASE-T as a Tomlinson-Harashima precoded (THP) version of pulse-amplitude modulation with 16 discrete levels (PAM-16), encoded in a two-dimensional checkerboard pattern known as DSQ128. Several proposals were considered for wire-level modulation, including PAM with 12 discrete levels (PAM-12), 10 levels (PAM-10), or 8 levels (PAM-8), both with and without Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding (THP). PAM-5 is what is used in the older 1000BASE-T gigabit Ethernet standard. Pulse-amplitude modulation, acronym PAM, is a form of signal modulation where the message information is encoded in the amplitude of a series of signal pulses. ... Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second, as defined by the IEEE 802. ...


See also

In computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s, against the original Ethernet speed of 10 Mbit/s. ... Gigabit Ethernet (GbE or 1 GigE) is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second, as defined by the IEEE 802. ... 100 gigabit Ethernet or 100GbE is an Ethernet standard presently under early development by the IEEE. The fastest existing standard is 10 gigabit Ethernet. ... This is a list of device bandwidths: the channel capacity (or, more informally, bandwidth) of some computer devices employing methods of data transport is listed by bit/s, kilobit/s (kbit/s), megabit/s (Mbit/s), or gigabit/s (Gbit/s) as appropriate and also MB/s or megabytes per... The GG45 is a connector for high speed CAT7 LAN cabling developed by Nexans. ... tera- (symbol: T) is a prefix in the SI system of units denoting 1012, or 1 000 000 000 000. ... XAUI (a concatenation of the Roman numeral X, meaning ten, and the initials of Attachment Unit Interface) is a standard for connecting 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBE) ports to each other and to other electronic devices on a printed circuit board. ...

Notes and references

  1. ^ IEEE Standards Status Report for 802.3aq.
  2. ^ IEEE Standards Status Report for 802.3an.

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