RE: PMD discussion
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At 09:34 AM 5/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Jack,
>
>With regards to your second point:
>
>"IC issues are nearly equal for all 3 serial approaches. But neither of the
>WDM solutions have anywhere near this level of broad-based support."
>
>Blaze is currently working with 10 IC companies that either currently have,
>will have or are planning to make chip sets to support the WDM solutions.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Ken
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-stds-802-3-hssg@ieee.org
>[mailto:owner-stds-802-3-hssg@ieee.org]On Behalf Of Jack Jewell
>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 6:14 PM
>To: '802.3ae'
>Subject: RE: PMD discussion
>
>
>
>Bruce,
>
>Your comments are well taken, though I feel compelled to comment on some of
>them. All in the spirit of building a clearer picture so that transceiver
>vendors and system vendors can make a better decision soon. Following your
>format:
>
>1) Parallel solutions do not appear destined for 802.3ae adoption. A serial
>solution seems most suitable for this space.
>
>2) Sooner or later everyone has to upgrade. I don't see any proposals to
>support 100's of meters of copper wire for 10GbE. But I won't try to tell
>you if this is the right time or not to recommend your customers to pull
>upgraded fiber. And I agree, the merits of choosing SMF for that upgrade
>are very strong.
> Since Picolight demonstrated a working 10Gig transponder at the the
>Networld & Interop tradeshow, I must disagree that "they are all
>demonstrations of upgrades to technology and products customers already have
>installed." No offense taken since it was a recent demo. However,
>excluding parallel solutions which are not destined for 802.3ae adoption, it
>is clear that the 850nm serial solution has the greatest "broad-based
>support" in terms of feasibility demonstrations of any 10GbE candidate PMDs.
>The serial 1310 and 1550 approaches also have a great deal of realness since
>they also exist in the telecom market. IC issues are nearly equal for all 3
>serial approaches. But neither of the WDM solutions have anywhere near this
>level of broad-based support.
>
>Hope you don't mind if the last comment went beyond responding to your
>email.
>
>Regards,
>Jack
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Tolley [mailto:btolley@cisco.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 3:58 PM
>To: Cornejo, Edward (Edward); '802.3ae'; 'Jack Jewell'
>Subject: RE: PMD discussion
>
>
>Ed:
>
>As far as I am concerned comparing 850 nm WDM with 1310 nm WDM is like
>comparing apples and oranges because they no not address the same customer
>segment.
>
>My customers want to run 10 GbE in the following spaces:
>
>1) Very, very short reach for connections between switches in the same
>room. For this application,parallel solutions seem to work fine
>
>2) Building backbone on installed 62.5 micron MM fiber. For this
>application, only one proposal works: 1310 nm WDM
>There is no threshold of pain in regard to cost, since if I cannot sell to
>my installed base THIS BUSINESS IS DEAD ON ARRIVAL.
>
>The 850 nm WDM PMD could cost 1/10 that of the 1310 nm part but that does
>me no good because the market is much smaller.
>
>Even if there were a substantial cost difference, because I expect cost to
>be a function of the experience curve, and the costs of the 1300 nm WDM to
>come down as volume ramps.
>
>And volume should ramp more quickly for a part that supports the installed
>base of 62..5 MM fiber. Remember, customers resist FORKLIFT UPGRADES. If
>you examine all the demonstrations to date of 10 gbE technology at trade
>shows, they are all demonstrations of upgrades to technology and products
>customers already have installed. This is no accident. We must support the
>installed base to have this market take off quickly.
>
>And by the way, if I am going to recommend new fiber for future proofing, I
>might as well recommend SM fiber.
>
>3) Medium long reach ( 10 to 40 km). Several PMDs cover portions of this
>spectrum. 1300 nm serial seems most optimal.
>
>4) Very long reach (over 50 km). 1550 nm serial seems the most optimal.
>
>Thanks for listening
>
>Bruce
>
>Bruce Tolley
>Enterprise Line of Business
>Cisco Systems
>
>At 03:25 PM 5/30/00 -0400, Cornejo, Edward (Edward) wrote:
>
>>Jack, et al,
>>
>>I could almost live with the list you have below, however, I thought Mr.
>>Tolley mentioned the importance of the embedded base(62.5um) up to 300m. If
>>this is the case, I would change the WDM from the 850 to 1310 window. The
>>only issue is cost between the two WDM solutions and I am sure there is a
>>difference, but by how much?
>>
>>Also, systems folks need to tell us what their threshold of pain is for
>>delta differences in cost. Is it 10%, 15%, 20% or 25%(0% is not an option,
>>sorry). This could make our decision easier.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Ed
>>
>>
>>
>> > ----------
>> > From: Jack Jewell[SMTP:jljewell@picolight.com]
>> > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 2:59 PM
>> > To: '802.3ae'
>> > Subject: RE: PMD discussion
>> >
>> >
>> > Walt (and others who have responded in the interim),
>> >
>> > Although I am encouraged that the group will come to some agreement
>> > without
>> > delaying our schedule, there is still some way to go. Given the breadth
>> > of
>> > the 5 objectives set forth, it seems almost certain that a 3-PMD set
>will
>> > leave at least one objective being greatly under-optimized. I would
>hate
>> > for that to be the highest volume product. Following the theme of
>> > optimizing for each space presented Thursday by Steve Haddock (and
>> > departing
>> > from his presentation of only 3 spaces), I would see the following as
>the
>> > optimal solutions for each Objective. Given the concensus that the 2km
>> > and
>> > 10km objectives are best served by a common PMD, we are really
>discussing
>> > 4
>> > distinct Objectives. Most of the debate is focused on the
>> > shorter-distance
>> > objectives, so this note focuses on them. I recommend the 4-PMD set
>> > below.
>> >
>> > SMF up to 40km - 1550nm Serial
>> >
>> > SMF up to 10km (incl 2km) - 1310nm Serial
>> >
>> > MMF up to 300m - 850nm Serial
>> >
>> > Installed MMF up to 100m - 850 CWDM
>> >
>> > Highest Volume Product Space
>> > The highest-volume product space here is almost certainly the MMF up to
>> > 300m. This is due to most of the transceivers being put into new
>products
>> > with new fibers. An interesting comment was made last Thursday
>regarding
>> > 100Mb Ethernet in which 3 PMDs were spec'd in order to accommodate TX
>> > grade
>> > cable as well as the installed base of T2 and T4 cable. Subsequently
>the
>> > T2
>> > and T4 were more or less abandoned and virtually the entire market went
>> > for
>> > the TX-based PMD. [I did not participate in that process; this is my
>> > interpretation of the comments made last Thursday. If this is
>inaccurate,
>> > I
>> > apologize.]
>> >
>> > Cost "Survey"
>> > There have been several comments today regarding costs of different
>PMDs.
>> > The cost comparisons which I (and Paul K) presented were NOT the result
>of
>> > an "unscientific survey." They are the average of estimates which were
>> > circulated on the reflector. No one was excluded from presenting their
>> > own
>> > numbers. I believe a great deal of thought was put into each estimate.
>> > Are
>> > the numbers accurate? Of course not. Are they all consistent enough to
>> > represent the general picture (which is how they were presented)?
>> > Absolutely. They have been presented publicly and privately with no
>> > voiced
>> > disagreement.
>> >
>> > Relative Costs of Serial and WDM
>> > It has been suggested and sometimes even stated outright that a WDM
>> > solution
>> > will be as low-cost or even lower-cost than a serial solution. This is
>> > unsupportable. I put this question to (and look for responses from)
>> > vendors
>> > who have manufactured and sold transceivers in any reasonable volume.
>> > (These are the ones who know transceiver costs better than anyone.)
>Does
>> > your optical subassembly cost more than your ICs? In expectation of a
>> > unanimous "Yes" to that question, comes the next question. In order to
>> > move
>> > to higher performance levels while minimizing the cost increase should
>> > you:
>> > 1) increase the complexity of your optics; or 2) increase the complexity
>> > of
>> > your ICs? This is why we aren't seriously discussing a WDM-only set of
>> > PMDs. WDM is a good way to get more data over a fiber than otherwise
>> > possible - but it's used only when simpler approaches cannot be used.
>As
>> > for the ICs, there were a lot of IC vendors at the meeting having
>> > aggressive
>> > goals and impressive capabilities. Assuming a "market entry" for 10GbE
>> > products at the end of this year, it is reasonable to forecast that the
>> > cost
>> > to produce a serial product will be less than its equivalent WDM product
>> > at
>> > the time of market entry or within 6 months after that. I.e. for
>> > essentially the entire product lifetime.
>> >
>> > The 4 PMDs recommended above are not biased in order to favor my
>company's
>> > choice of PMDs; rather my company's choice of PMDs is based on a hard
>view
>> > of the markets and technologies required to address them in an
>economical
>> > fashion.
>> >
>> > Jack
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Walter Thirion [mailto:wthirion@jatotech.com]
>> > Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 11:58 AM
>> > To: '802.3ae'
>> > Subject: PMD discussion
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > First of all, thanks to everybody that presented PMD proposals at the
>last
>> > meeting. I've sent my presentation to David Law, so it should be
>available
>> > on the web site in the next couple of days.
>> >
>> > In listening to the discussion after my presentation and then going
>around
>> > and talking to people, it feels to me like we're starting to converge.
>Not
>> > there, yet, but making progress.
>> >
>> > The equipment manufacturers made it pretty clear they would like to see
>no
>> > more than 3 PMDs in the standard. The PMD vendors have some concern that
>> > using only 3 PMDs may sub-optimize certain objectives, however, they
>could
>> > support the 3 PMD position if it is made clear which 3 PMDs the
>equipment
>> > oems want.
>> >
>> > Based on an informal straw poll and anecdotal evidence, my opinion is
>the
>> > first choice would be the set:
>> > ________________
>> > 850 nm WWDM
>> > 1310 nm WWDM
>> > 1550 nm Serial
>> > ________________
>> >
>> > If that set isn't feasible, then the 2nd most popular choice is:
>> > ________________
>> > 850 nm WWDM
>> > 1310 nm Serial
>> > 1550 nm Serial
>> > ________________
>> >
>> > Thoughts, feedback?
>> >
>> > Walt
>> > ___________________
>> > Walter Thirion
>> > Chair, IEEE 802.3ae PMD Sub-Task Force
>> > 301 Congress Ave.
>> > Suite 2050
>> > Austin, Texas 78701
>> > Voice: 512-236-6951
>> > Fax: 512-236-6959
>> > wthirion@jatotech.com
>> > ___________________
>> >
>