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June 22, 2010

IEEE Announces Ratification of IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet

By Anuradha Shukla
TMCnet Contributor


 
Communication solutions based on Ethernet technologies are becoming popular in many industrial and factory environments - and a number of real-time competing products have been proposed in the last few years.
 
But as this technology evolves, the development of efficient dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithms has become a key concern.
 
IEEE, the professional association for the advancement of technology, recently announced the ratification of IEEE (News - Alert) 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet, a new standard governing 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet operations.

 
An amendment to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3ba, the standard ever to simultaneously specify two new Ethernet speeds, paves the way for the next generation of high-rate server connectivity and core switching.
 
The IEEE 802.3ba standard, ratified June 17, 2010, addresses critical challenges facing technology providers today, such as the growing number of applications with demonstrated bandwidth needs far exceeding existing Ethernet capabilities, by providing a larger, more durable bandwidth pipeline. Furthermore, collaboration between the IEEE P802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet Task Force and the International Telecommunication Union's Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) Study Group 15 ensures these new Ethernet rates are transportable over optical transport networks.
 
"Ubiquitous adoption of bandwidth-intensive technologies and applications, such as converged network services, video-on-demand, and social networking, is producing rapidly increasing demand for higher-rate throughput. As mass-market access to these technologies continues accelerating, coupled with today's progressively more powerful server architectures, data centers, network providers and end-users alike are finding themselves confronted by pressing bandwidth bottlenecks," saidJohn D'Ambrosia, Chair, IEEE P802.3ba Task Force, and Director, Ethernet-based Standards, CTO Office, Force10 Networks (News - Alert). "IEEE 802.3ba will eliminate these bottlenecks by providing a robust, scalable architecture for meeting current bandwidth requirements and laying a solid foundation for future Ethernet speed increases."
 
The new standard will act as the catalyst needed for unlocking innovation across the greater Ethernet ecosystem. IEEE 802.3ba is expected to trigger further expansion of the 40 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet family of technologies by driving new development efforts, as well as providing new aggregation speeds that will enable 10 Gb/s Ethernet network deployments. IEEE 802.3ba remains compatible with existing IEEE 802.3 installations, thereby preserving significant industry investment in the technology.
 
Back in April, BLADE Network Technologies a provider of scale-out data center fabrics announced that it has partnered with Voltaire (News - Alert) to deliver high-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 10GbE data center switch fabrics.

Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha's article, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Marisa Torrieri
 

 
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