RE: What is 802.3ae WAN-PHY?
Osamu-san, your English is great! We should probably use ...-san in all our
communications here. :-)
Am I wrong in assuming that if "ae" were to adopt 10GENIE that we would only
have to identify a 1:1 mapping between 10GENIE codes and what would have
been stuffed into the requisite bytes of the SONET overhead? In short, the
OAM&P would be identical, but we would just use a different mechanism to
transport it?
Question: while the 1:1 logical connection is easy for me to make, would
there be any issue regarding the amount of data that could be carried in the
SONET overhead compared to the amount of data that could be carried in the
IPG? Or, if the ELTE were to take the information from GENIE and stuff it
into the SONET payload (and vice-versa), what would be the issues regarding
dataflow?
jonathan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Osamu ISHIDA [mailto:ishida@exa.onlab.ntt.co.jp]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 7:50 AM
> To: Gary Nicholl; stds-802-3-hssg@ieee.org
> Subject: What is 802.3ae WAN-PHY?
>
>
> Dear Gary,
>
> Thank you for your intelligible feedback. Now I became convinced
> that I speak English :-). I am happy to hear the Japanese style
> here, Nicholl-san! But please feel free to say just Osamu, because
> it helps me to trust (fake?) myself that I speak English.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/email/msg01952.html
>
> Also, thanks to you, I became convinced that we have some issues of
> clock tolerance compensation in SONET-framing that Rich has pointed
> out farsightedly.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/email/msg01866.html
>
> On the other hand, it seems to me that this community has consensus
> that the ELTE, not the WAN-PHY with SONET framer, is the demarcation
> point between SONET and Ethernet. In other words, WAN-PHY with SONET
> framer or Uni-PHY with WIS (WAN interface sublayer) should not be
> SONET. (All, please let me know if this is a wrong observation.)
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/email/msg01958.html
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/mar00/frazier_1
> _0300.pdf
>
> Then why we need WAN-PHY or WIS other than ELTE?
>
> The answer is in Mr. Paul Bottorff's slides in Albuquerque; the
> router/SW requires minimal management capability of WAN.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/mar00/bottorff_
> 2_0300.pdf
>
> Here I completely agree with Paul. This is indispensable to meet the
> PAR scope "add parameters and mechanisms that enable deployment of
> Ethernet over the Wide Area Network".
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/PAR-802-3ae.pdf
>
> Then do we need SONET-frame between WAN-PHY and ELTE?
>
> In my opinion, the answer is NO.
>
> Once we have Mr. Shimon Muller's open-loop control to provide
> OC-192c/VC-4-64c compatible MAC rate, my understanding of the need
> for the SONET-framed PHY or WIS is limited to the OAM&P capability
> supported by minimal overhead bytes in a SONET frame.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/mar00/muller_1_0300.pdf
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/mar00/figueira_
> 1_0300.pdf
>
> Here you have another solution 10GENIE; Layer-1 signaling by using
> interpacket gap.
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/mar00/ishida_1_0300.pdf
> Assuming that 10GENIE can support the similar OAM&P to the ELTE, my
> perspective says that 10GENIE would be cheaper than WAN-PHY and WIS;
> no SONET framer (pointer manipulation), much less extra buffer for
> OAM&P data insertion, no 9.95Gb/s CLK, no jitter-tolerance
> limitation.
> I will shed light on this comparison in my up-dated 10GENIE proposal
> in Ottawa.
>
> Of course I have understood that 10GENIE has a tough problem
> indicated
> by Mr. Steve Haddock; Who is going to define how to OAM&P?
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/email/msg01919.html
>
> My perspective says that IEEE 802 is the only candidate to be able to
> define it. I know that this don't suit the traditional
> 802.3's taste,
> but still I hope to have your support to define it. Otherwise we
> will see the law of the jungle until some de facto OAM&P has
> established; we will see wasteful investment to every potential loser
> and local dialect cutting the market into pieces. We will fail to
> catch a golden opportunity to unify LAN/WAN hardware for datacom at
> 10 Gb/s; and may degrade huge unified market potential.
>
> In Ottawa, I will show you how 10GENIE OAM&P is simple and easy-
> interoperable. I will restrict it to non-negotiable functions.
> I think this may be simpler than the auto-negotiation with config-
> register defined in 802.3z Clause 37.
>
> All, any feedback on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
> Osamu
>
> At 4:08 PM -0400 00.4.3, Gary Nicholl wrote:
> > I agree with Ishida-san.
> >
> > I think we need to understand that there are two separate
> issues here.
> >
> > (1) clock tolerance/accuracy specifications (i.e.
> +/-100ppm, +/-4.6 ppm, etc)
> > (2) jitter budget specifications (jitter generation,
> transfer and tolerance)
> >
> > The first one determines the lock range of any oscillators
> and phase look loops in the network. In SONET the worst case
> clock accuracy/tolerance is specified as +/- 20ppm and
> therefore every oscillator and clock recovery circuit in a
> SONET network should be able to lock on and hold to a +/-
> 20ppm signal.
> >
> > The second one, as Ishida-san points out is, effectively
> determines the maximum number of through-timed regenerators
> that can be traversed on an end-end SONET link to maintain a
> specified link bit error rate.
> >
> > These two specifications (i.e. clock tolerance/accuracy and
> jitter) are completely intendant. However from my experience
> in dealing with POS (packet over SONET) there is a tendency
> among some people to assume that they are related, in that a
> more accurate clock (say 4.6ppm rather than 20ppm)
> necessarily has better jitter performance. This is not the
> case. In fact SONET has a single set of jitter specifications
> (generation, transfer and tolerance) that are the same
> irrespective of whether an interface is clocked from a
> stratum 1 clock, a stratum 3 clock (4.6ppm) or a 'SONET
> minimum' clock (20ppm).
> >
> > As a reference point POS interfaces use a 20ppm clock and
> are fully compliant with the SONET/SDH jitter specifications
> in Bellcore GR-253 and ITU G.958.
> >
> > Gary ........................
>
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