Re: WAN PHY name
Jay,
You are stating the very confusion that has been prominent about the WAN
compatible PHY. I have not been using "SONET" or "SDH" in the name of the
PHY specifically because of the confusion that others are presenting. The
proposed WAN compatible PHY uses a "SONET/SDH Lite" frame and scramble
encoding, as well as direct mapping of 802.3 Ethernet MAC frames using a
"frame stuffing" on octet boundaries, with secondary scrambling of the
payload. There have been other presentations that proposed a bit oriented
"supper character" on non-octet boundaries, with the same secondary
scrambling.
All of this concern about the so-called "name" is just adding to the
confusion. It would be just as accurate to call it the "Compatible
Optical" or "CO" PHY.
Thank you,
Roy Bynum
----- Original Message -----
From: <jay.hoge@uk.jdsunph.com>
To: <rtaborek@nserial.com>
Cc: HSSG <stds-802-3-hssg@ieee.org>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: WAN PHY name
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> There is a "yes, but..." here. To say that because we are IEEE 802.3
> instead of the ITU doesn't remove the confusion factor. I'm free to call
my
> horse a dog, but it still won't hunt...and it'll sure as Hell confuse
> people looking for quail.
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> To attach the name SONET (or SDH) to something has a lot of implications
> for telecom people. If everyone insists that SONET go into the name, we
> should call it the "SONET Incompatable PHY", because in no real sense is
it
> compatable with those features which are unique to the SONET / SDH
network.
> WAN PHY is better in that it, at least, doesn't confuse people in the
> business.
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> Once again, it seems to me that the majority of users interested in this
> PHY will have a Telecom, as contrasted to Datacom, orientation. Thus,
> calling it a Telecom PHY makes a natural distinction which will both give
> potential users some guidance and let Jonathan give journalists a simple
> set of names they can understand.
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