IEEE P802.3dv 400 Gb/s/Lane Signaling Task Force

November 2026 Plenary Meeting

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	Shorthand	Date	Author(s)	Affiliation(s)
Administration
Agenda and General Information		5 Nov 2026	Kent Lusted	Synopsys
Unapproved Minutes			Beth Kochuparambil Kent Lusted	Cisco Synopsys
Straw Polls and Motions			Beth Kochuparambil Kent Lusted	Cisco Synopsys
Slido User Guide			Beth Kochuparambil	Cisco

Liaisons and Communications
Draft Liaison to UEC, OIF, UALink, ITU, INCTIS, OCP - Announce 3dv Task Force Per Task Force discussion		21 Oct 2026	Kent Lusted	Synopsys
Draft Liaison to OSFP, XPO Per Task Force discussion	dambrosia_02	5 Nov 2026	John D'Ambrosia	Futurewei, U.S. Subsidiary of Huawei


Technical Contributions

Architecture/Logic
Towards a PMA baseline for 400GbE/800GbE/1.6TbE over 400G/Lane	opsasnick_01	5 Nov 2026	Eugene Opsasnick Kapil Shrikhande	Broadcom Upscale
APSU direction for 802.3dv	bruckman_02	5 Nov 2026	Leon Bruckman Luz Osorio	Nvidia Nokia
Back Channel for Extended Training (BECT) - Applications	bruckman_01	5 Nov 2026	Leon Bruckman	Nvidia
Transmitter preset selection protocol	bruckman_03	5 Nov 2026	Leon Bruckman Johan J. Mohr Vishnu Balan Ola Oluwole	Nvidia Nvidia Nvidia Nvidia
Towards a maintenance channel proposal for P802.3dv	ran_01	5 Nov 2026	Adee Ran Sridhar Ramesh	Cisco MaxLinear
Maintenance Channel message format for precise peer-to-peer Time Synchronization	ramesh_01	5 Nov 2026	Jose Galan Sridhar Ramesh Vasu Parthasarathy Rajesh Satapathy JW Lee Adee Ran	MaxLinear MaxLinear Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom Cisco
Maintenance Channel message format for "Remote CMIS" capability	ramesh_02	5 Nov 2026	Jose Galan Sridhar Ramesh Vasu Parthasarathy Rajesh Satapathy JW Lee Adee Ran	MaxLinear MaxLinear Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom Cisco
Potential Knobs for Optical ILT	ghiasi_02	5 Nov 2026	Ali Ghiasi Karl Muth Mike Dudek Roberto Rode Sridhar Ramesh Vasu Parthasarathy	Ghiasi Quantum/Marvell Broadcom Marvell Coherent MaxLinear Broadcom



Electrical
Channel Operating Margin (COM) Code for P802.3dv	heck_01	5 Nov 2026	Howard Heck Kent Lusted	TE Connectivity Synopsys
Active cables and Project Scope	dambrosia_01	5 Nov 2026	John D'Ambrosia	Futurewei, U.S. Subsidiary of Huawei
Generalized MDI Connector Update	dambrosia_03	6 Nov 2026	John D'Ambrosia	Futurewei, U.S. Subsidiary of Huawei
PAM6 Considerations	brown_01		Matt Brown	Qualcomm
Preliminary package models for 802.3dv	benartsi_01	6 Nov 2026	Liav Ben-Artsi	Marvell
Impact of Low-Loss Build-Up Materials on Future 400G/lane Package Channels	sakai_01	5 Nov 2026	Toshiaki Sakai Futoshi Terasawa Masaki Fujioka	Socionext Socionext Socionext
Package Channel Study for 400G per Lane	luo_01	5 Nov 2026	Duona Luo Tengfei Zhang Lizheng Yin Xiang He	Huawei Technologies Huawei Technologies Huawei Technologies Huawei Technologies
Active Electrical Cables for 400GPL	sharon_01		Ari Sharon	Terawand
802.3dv Electrical Channel Considerations	heck_02	5 Nov 2026	Howard Heck Tina Bao Femi Akinwale Kent Lusted	TE Connectivity TE Connectivity Intel Synopsys
CPC-based Copper Channels for P802.3dv	heck_03	5 Nov 2026	Howard Heck Nathan Tracy Marva Dar Tina Bao	TE Connectivity TE Connectivity TE Connectivity TE Connectivity
Set A: Channel Performance for 400GPL PAM6- C2M and KR Channel SnP files	dsilva_01	5 Nov 2026	Hansel D'Silva David Stauffer Samuel Kocsis	Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol
Set B1: Channel Performance for 400GPL PAM6- C2M Channel SnP files	dsilva_02	5 Nov 2026	Hansel D'Silva David Stauffer Samuel Kocsis Mike Peng Li Frank Lambrecht	Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol AMD AMD
Set B2: Channel Performance for 400GPL PAM6- KR Channel SnP files	dsilva_03	5 Nov 2026	Hansel D'Silva David Stauffer Samuel Kocsis Mike Peng Li Frank Lambrecht	Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol AMD AMD
Loss Expectations for Elements in the 400G Copper Channel	kim_01	5 Nov 2026	Andrew Kim Jinhua Chen Claire Liu	Luxshare-Tech Luxshare-Tech Luxshare-Tech
Constraint-Coded Modulation for PAM6	sverdov_01	5 Nov 2026	Alexander Sverdlov Matt Brown Xiao Feng Wang	Qualcomm Inc. Qualcomm Inc. Qualcomm Inc.
A New PR Equalization and MLSD that Enable 400G PAM4 over Band-Limited Channels	shakiba_01		Hossein Shakiba	Huawei
Partial-Response MMSE for MLSD: Targeted Updates to Annex 178A	mellitz_01	5 Nov 2026	Richard Mellitz Adam Gregory Brandon Gore Tim Wig	Samtec Samtec Samtec Samtec
Defining a C2M Interfaces Optimized for NPO	ghiasi_01	5 Nov 2026	Ali Ghiasi Chris Cole Karl Muth Mike Dudek Sridhar Ramesh	Ghiasi Quantum/Marvell Coherent Broadcom Marvell MaxLinear
PHY Error Allocation for Linear and Partially Retimed Implementations	bernier_01	5 Nov 2026	Eric Bernier Mark Kimber	Huawei Technologies Semtech


Optical
Considerations of 400G/L CD Penalty and Measurement	he_m_01	5 Nov 2026	Michael He Hao Liao Rang-Chen (Ryan) Yu	TeraHop TeraHop TeraHop
400G/lane Optical Specification challenges	rodes_01	5 Nov 2026	Roberto Rodes	Coherent
supporting data for on optical transmitter quality metric discussion	mi_g_01		Guangcan Mi	Huawei
Baseline Proposal for 400GPL Single Wavelength Objectives	welch_01	5 Nov 2026	Brian Welch Ali Ghiasi Vasu Parthasarathy Ahmad El-Chayeb Mike Dudek Roberto Rodes Karl Muth Vishnu Balan Ricardo Aroca	Cisco Ghiasi Quantum Broadcom Keysight Marvell Coherent Broadcom Nvidia Cisco
Lower BW Tx in 400G/Lane	balan_01	5 Nov 2026	Vishnu Balan Leon Bruckman Bill Simms	nVIDIA nVIDIA nVIDIA
Proposed Baseline for 400GPL 500m objectives	fan_x_01	5 Nov 2026	Xiaojie Fan Ping Liao Yu Xu	Huawei Technologies Huawei Technologies Huawei Technologies