RE: PMD discussion
Bruce:
I always appreciate your valuable inputs from your actual, broad market
experience. This one is no differences.
I agree with you there are overlaps in 5-PMDs, shorter is better, and this
complex issue needs inputs of all different reasoning. We have to keep
discussing to narrow the differences.
One thing I noticed from your earlier comments that you need short jumpers
(VSR, below 100 meter), but you can handle it without standardization may
not be a good suggestion for the whole industry. For the whole industry and
market, we should standardize all PMDs within IEEE 802.3ae specification
without exception.
Regards,
Edward S. Chang
NetWorth Technologies, Inc.
EChang@NetWorthtech.com
Tel: (610)292-2870
Fax: (610)292-2872
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Tolley [mailto:btolley@cisco.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:29 AM
To: Edward Chang; Cornejo, Edward (Edward); jay.hoge@uk.jdsunph.com
Cc: '802.3ae'; 'Jack Jewell'
Subject: RE: PMD discussion
Ed:
Multiple options confuse the market when they overlap and the set of 5
options contains substantial overlap.
It is legitimate for informed people to disagree on complex issues and for
us to have difficulty converging on the short list of PMDs.
But everyone should be absolutely clear that the shorter the list is the
better both for market growth and for ease of completing the specification.
Bruce
At 09:22 AM 6/1/00 -0400, Edward Chang wrote:
>Ed and Jay:
>
>In general it is true that with a given size of a pie, the more people
share
>the same pie, the smaller share each one gets.
>
>However, the 10 GbE PMDs are not in one same pie, in stead, it consists of
a
>few distinctly different pies. For example, the pie of VSR below 100 meter
>connections among equipment of a computer room is totally different from 40
>km MAN pie. They do not share pies at all.
>
>Important thing we have to do is to provide enough PMD options for the
>future market to grow.
>
>Some PMD companies has all different PMD products to meet each different
PMD
>market needs.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Edward S. Chang
>NetWorth Technologies, Inc.
>EChang@NetWorthtech.com
>Tel: (610)292-2870
>Fax: (610)292-2872
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-stds-802-3-hssg@ieee.org
>[mailto:owner-stds-802-3-hssg@ieee.org]On Behalf Of Cornejo, Edward
>(Edward)
>Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 3:56 PM
>To: 'jay.hoge@uk.jdsunph.com'
>Cc: '802.3ae'; 'Jack Jewell'
>Subject: RE: PMD discussion
>
>
>
>Good point Jay. I am not in favor of splitting up the pie anymore than we
>have to. And speaking from a PMD supplier perspective, the fewer projects
we
>need to fund and resource the better for time to market and time to cost.
>
>Cheers,
>Ed
>
> > ----------
> > From: jay.hoge@uk.jdsunph.com[SMTP:jay.hoge@uk.jdsunph.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:58 AM
> > To: Cornejo, Edward (Edward)
> > Cc: '802.3ae'; 'Jack Jewell'
> > Subject: RE: PMD discussion
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Ed,
> >
> > I agree with you for the most part. It's important to remember, however,
> > that each time we split the pie by adding another PMD, the volume of
each
> > goes down and the price of each goes up. Price deltas are a slippery
> > slope.
> >
> > Jay
> >
> >