Re: Issues concerning 10GbE speed standards
Bruce,
I am sadden by your comment that would rather have not worked on 100VG, it you had
known that 100BT would win the majority of the market space. Engineers should be
willing to work on things that don't make it in the market space. Look a Thomas
Edison and the phonograph. If he had known that his solution would not make it
the market place, and had not developed to the point that he had, we would not
have had recorded sounds for long time after. Sometimes it takes different
choices between technical innovations for the technical people to really
understand what the non-technical consumer really can understand and want. If
technical people already knew everything, what would be there to learn? Think that
a limited number of alternative PHY solutions will allow the market to define its
understanding and needs as this technology progresses. Having a predefined,
limited solution stifles innovation. Let innovation and the market place define
the final solution.
Note: there are still a lot of Token Ring systems out there that are migrating to
Ethernet. 100VG is still a viable solution for some implementations.
Thank you,
Roy Bynum,
MCI WorldCom
Bruce LaVigne wrote:
> I agree with Colin. It may be tough, it may be strained at times, but in the
> end, you (and your customers) will be MUCH happier that a single solution is
> standardized. For an example of where we (IEEE) wimped out, look at 100T and
> 100VG. Let the market decide... and it did. Yes, I worked on 100VG, and yes,
> I still think it is a technically better solution, but I would have rather
> worked to make 100T better than have two solutions in the market, which just
> confuses customers. You can't plug one into another, the cable specs are
> different, etc. etc. etc. In the end, both solutions were hurt because of the
> split. For an example of where the IEEE didn't wimp out, look at 1000Base-T.
> There was plenty of strain, but in the end, one solution was picked. Bravo!
> Let's learn from our mistakes and work this thing out here, not in the market.
>
> Bruce LaVigne
>
> Colin Mick--The Mick Group wrote:
> >
> > I think multiuple competing solutions and a "let the market decide" is a
> > sure recipe for disaster.
> > It guarantees inoperable solutions and promotes market confusion.
> >
> > Making decisions among competing techincal solutions is a tough but
> > necessary part of the standards process.
> >
> > Colin K. Mick
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