Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-10-02 Thread Greg Hankins
Several good presentations were given at the IEEE meeting in Geneva last week about why we should do 400 GbE and not TbE. You can find them here: http://www.ieee802.org/3/ad_hoc/hse/public/12_09/index.shtml . Greg -- Greg Hankins

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-10-01 Thread Masataka Ohta
t...@ninjabadger.net wrote: >> It depends on distance between senders and receivers. >> >> However, at certain distance it becomes impossible to use >> efficient (w.r.t. bits per symbol) encoding, because of >> noise of repeated EDFA amplification. > > <500km not enough? > > https://www.de-cix.n

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-10-01 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, t...@ninjabadger.net wrote: If you can afford Wave Logic 3 interfaces for your Nortel^WCiena 6500's, you'll find some pretty impressive things are actually possible, including 100G per 100GHz guide over very large distances (think Atlantic-large). The amount of processing

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-10-01 Thread tom
On 2012-10-01 08:57, Masataka Ohta wrote: Tom Hill wrote: Once you get your head (and wallet) around that, there becomes a case for running each of your waves at 2.5x the rate they're employed at now. The remaining question is then to decide if that's cheaper than running more fibre. It de

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-10-01 Thread Masataka Ohta
Tom Hill wrote: > Once you get your head (and wallet) around that, there becomes a case > for running each of your waves at 2.5x the rate they're employed at now. > The remaining question is then to decide if that's cheaper than running > more fibre. It depends on distance between senders and

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-30 Thread Tom Hill
On 30/09/12 20:05, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 9/29/12, Masataka Ohta wrote: >Jared Mauch wrote: ... >The problem is that physical layer of 100GE (with 10*10G) and >10*10GE are identical (if same plug and cable are used both for >100GE and 10*10GE). Interesting.Well, I would say if there are

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-30 Thread Masataka Ohta
joel jaeggli wrote: >>> The problem is that physical layer of 100GE (with 10*10G) and >>> 10*10GE are identical (if same plug and cable are used both for >>> 100GE and 10*10GE). >> Interesting.Well, I would say if there are no technical >> improvements that will significantly improve performa

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-30 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/30/12 12:05 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 9/29/12, Masataka Ohta wrote: Jared Mauch wrote: ... The problem is that physical layer of 100GE (with 10*10G) and 10*10GE are identical (if same plug and cable are used both for 100GE and 10*10GE). Interesting.Well, I would say if there are no

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 9/29/12, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Jared Mauch wrote: ... > The problem is that physical layer of 100GE (with 10*10G) and > 10*10GE are identical (if same plug and cable are used both for > 100GE and 10*10GE). Interesting.Well, I would say if there are no technical improvements that will sig

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
Jared Mauch wrote: > There is also a problem in the 100GbE space where the market > pricing hasn't yet reached an amount whereby the economics > are "close enough" to push people beyond N*10G. The problem is that physical layer of 100GE (with 10*10G) and 10*10GE are identical (if same plug and ca

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-28 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/27/12 5:58 AM, Darius Jahandarie wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/terabit-ethernet-is-dead-for-now/ Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons as the ones in this a

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In a message written on Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:58:09AM -0400, Darius > Jahandarie wrote: >> I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons >> as the ones in this article, but then 100Gbit/s being the technology >> that

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/09/2012 14:58, Darius Jahandarie wrote: > I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons > as the ones in this article, but then 100Gbit/s being the technology > that actually ended up in most places. Could this be the same thing > happening? no. the IEEE working grou

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Steve Meuse
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > I opposed 40GE, but since physics is a lot of the problem here, I think > 400GE is favorable over 1TE. Already now we're sitting with platforms with > forwarding performance per slot that doesn't really match 100GE nicely, > imagine th

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, jim deleskie wrote: That problem IMO will only be worse with a 4x speed multiplier over 100G what premium will anyone be willing to spend to have a single 400G pipe over 4 bonded 100G pipes? I'd say most are not willing to pay any premium at all, but are willing to adop

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Rosenthal Phil
On Sep 27, 2012, at 9:26 AM, jim deleskie wrote: > That problem IMO will only be worse with a 4x speed multiplier over > 100G what premium will anyone be willing to spend to have a single > 400G pipe over 4 bonded 100G pipes? When you consider that 10GE is less than 10X the price of Gig-E, wh

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Dan Shechter
If they would have rolled out 1000G networks now, I guess we will have to plug in 17 MTP interfaces ;) HTH, Dan #13685 (RS/Sec/SP) The CCIE troubleshooting blog: http://dans-net.com Bring order to your Private VLAN network: http://marathon-networks.com On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Eug

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread jim deleskie
That problem IMO will only be worse with a 4x speed multiplier over 100G what premium will anyone be willing to spend to have a single 400G pipe over 4 bonded 100G pipes? -jim On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Darius Jahandarie wrote: > >> I

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sep 27, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Darius Jahandarie wrote: > I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons > as the ones in this article, but then 100Gbit/s being the technology > that actually ended up in most places. Could this be the same thing > happening? I would say yes

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:58:09AM -0400, Darius Jahandarie wrote: > I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons > as the ones in this article, but then 100Gbit/s being the technology > that actually ended up in most places. Could this be the same thi

Re: /. Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now

2012-09-27 Thread Darius Jahandarie
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/terabit-ethernet-is-dead-for-now/ > > Terabit Ethernet is Dead, for Now I recall 40Gbit/s Ethernet being promoted heavily for similar reasons as the ones in this article, but then 100Gbit/s being the techno