Re: 10 gige experience

["Nipper, Arnold" <arnold () nipper de>]

http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2001/0507feat3.html might also be
interesting ...

Arnold

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Coluccio" <fcoluccio () dticonsulting com>
To: "dave o'leary" <doleary () juniper net>; "Mike Leber" <mleber () he net>;
"Vinay Bannai" <bannai () pacbell net>
Cc: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: 10 gige experience


> Off Topic, kinda... check out the caption at the bottom of this page:
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> http://www.iec.org/tutorials/opt_ethernet/topic05.html
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> The tutorial isn't bad, either ;)
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> ------Original Message------
> From: "dave o'leary" <doleary () juniper net>
> To: Mike Leber <mleber () he net>, Vinay Bannai <bannai () pacbell net>
> Sent: May 10, 2001 2:35:24 AM GMT
> Subject: Re: 10 gige experience
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> IEEE standards web page at http://grouper.ieee.org is quite helpful
> for finding the status of the various standards.
>
> In particular, check
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> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/mar01/minutes_0301.pdf
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> for the minutes of the last IEEE 802.3ae Working Group meeting.
>
> Target for completion is 1Q 2002.
>
> At this point, much of the work has been completed, I believe that
> all of the outstanding issues were resolved at the meeting and they
> have gone to working group ballot (don't ask me about all the details
> of the IEEE decision making process, but they are online).
>
> So at least things are close enough that chip sets are being developed
> and equipment vendors can get underway with confidence that there
> won't be too much change, such that standards compliant products
> should be available about in the same timeframe that the standard
> is completed.
>
> dave
>
> At 04:14 PM 5/9/01 -0700, Mike Leber wrote:
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> > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Vinay Bannai wrote:
> > > > Anybody out there have any experience with 10 gigabit ethernet?
> > >
> > > I don't think the 10GEA has standarized the draft. It is slated for
mid
> > 2002.
> > > But some vendors might have non-standard implementations, but I am not
> > aware of
> > > it.
> >
> > Here is an article that states that IntelliSpace and others are already
> > using 10 Gigabit Ethernet equipment provided by Extreme Networks.  It is
> > skimpy on the details.
> >
> > http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO54671,00.html
> >
> > I'm trolling to see if anybody in the nanog crowd was willing or able
> > (NDAs and all) to tell us about any 10 gige equipment they might be
using.
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