Re: 10 GbE en MASse PMD, Historically...
Rich-
100BASE-TX was not a case of "engineered brand new technology"
We stole it fair and square from FDDI (TP-PMD). Perhaps you were thinking
of 100BASE-T4 or 100BASE-T2 both of which were new technology but didn't
make it in the market.
You could argue 10BASE-T either way. There was extensive proprietary
product out there (LattisNet-UTP) and the group had already done work on 1
Mb/s StarLAN (1BASE5) but the signaling was a new design, the last one that
we have done that was a success. The jury is still out on 1000BASE-T.
At 02:51 AM 11/19/99 -0800, Rich Taborek wrote:
........
>> 1. Historically, Ethernet has utilized the optical
>> technologies developed by at least several companies
>> with some key fielded product.
>
>That may well be true for Ethernet, but only because all Ethernet optical
>technologies to date have been leveraged from other standards. In other
instances,
>such as 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T, 802 has engineered brand new
technologies to
>field a standard. History and tradition are all well and fine, but
certainly not
>the rule for Ethernet. Note also that WWDM is a new technology, not
fielded in
>general, and certainly not by many companies.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Geoff
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