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• Moving Standards to 100 GbE and Beyond

  by  John McDonough, NEC Corporation of America
  Publish Date:  10 Jun 2008   Revised Date: 17 Jun 2008
  Category:  100-GIGABIT-ETHERNET
  Keywords:  HSSG ,   OTN ,   NESCOM ,   100 gigabit ethernet  
  

  The quickly rising tide of new bandwidth requirements driven by IP traffic, IP video, IPTV broadband and transaction-intensive Web 2.0 has caused carriers to purchase growing numbers of 10G interfaces on routers, carrier Ethernet switches and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems [1–3]. Equipment is now being deployed with 40G interfaces, and some long-hau.....