Course 309: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fundamentals

10 Gigabit Ethernet will be of immediate use to carriers looking to provide low-cost, high-speed Ethernet services to businesses with metro area network (MAN) services. Over the next several years, enterprises are expected to adopt 10 Gigabit Ethernet as a switch-to-switch interconnect technology. Enterprises could also use it for long-distance backbone connections in large campuses or for building out their own MANs where dark fiber is available for private purchase.

Introduction

• 100BASE-T
• 10-Gigabit Ethernet
• Objective of 10G Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3 Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG)
• MAC Client server interface.
• IEEE 802 Functional Requirements
• 10Gb/s at MAC/PLS service interface
• What is the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10 GEA)
• IEEE 802.3ae Task Force

Why 10G Ethernet?

• Architecture
• MAC Layer
• Physical Layer
• 10Gibagit Ethernet in LAN, MAN & WAN
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Future market of 10G Ethernet

How does 10 Gigabit Ethernet differ from previous versions of Ethernet?

• Differences between 10 Gigabit Ethernet and other speeds of Ethernet.
• Long-haul (40+ km) optical transceiver
• physical medium dependent (PMD) interface for single mode fiber
• LAN physical layer (PHY) or wide area network (WAN PHY)
• Building metropolitan area networks (MANs)
• WAN PHY option
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet transported across existing SONET (synchronous optical network) OC-192c
• SDH (synchronous digitalhierarchy) VC-4-64c infrastructures
• Advantages and Disadvantages