Re: [RE] Objectives summary for a paper ...
I think you have captured the main requirements there, Michael. I would
just add end-point synchronization, which is synch between
applications...not network elements.
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Subject: [RE] Objectives summary for a paper ...
Iım writing a paper on Residential Ethernet that needs to go to the
publisher in the next few days. It has to be kept reasonably short, so
Iıve
compressed the objectives a bit. Before I send them in, Iıd like to make
sure that I havenıt missed something important. Here is the relevant
section
of text:
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The first meeting of the study group took place on September 30, 2004,
in
Ottawa, Canada, and agreed on a set of objectives which were further
refined
in meetings leading up to the November 2004 802.3 meetings in San
Antonio[1]
:
1. Plug and Play (which means that all of the various automatic and
self-configuring capabilities of 802.3 will be required, not optional).
2. Links must be 100Mb/s full duplex or greater (requires the use of
switches to connect together more that two devices). All existing 802.3
physical layers that meet this requirement are fully supported.
3. Isochronous services will be provided which give managed priority
access to specified chunks of transmission duration within 8kHz
³cycles²
(fundamentally the same technique used by IEEE 1394).
4. Isochronous services can use up to 75% of the link bandwidth,
while
the remaining is always available to best-effort traffic (³best-effort²
is
normal Ethenet traffic).
5. There will be a mechanism to request/assign resources for
isochronous
services (e.g. bandwidth, channel) and the default rule(s) for managing
the
resources
6. High quality synchronization services that provides all stations
with
a low jitter ³house clock².
7. Isochronous bridging to IEEE 1394, IEEE 802.11, and IEEE 802.15.3.
[1] The actual objectives list is somewhat longer. This is an
aggregation of
that list.
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