Comments on: Ethernet zooms to 100 Gigabit speeds

By: joe

joe — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:18:48 +0000

Its because the US is just so much bigger than any individual country in the EU and Korea. Broadband still hasn’t reach some areas of the US including most rural Texas.

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By: michael

michael — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:11:44 +0000

More progressive noted today in 100Gig on LightReading. Like I said…every effort made, such as Infinera’s, is progress. So much for the vanity project/"big packets" theory, whatever that meant.

By: chechar

chechar — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:18:11 +0000

Lo que ta en chino no es verdad

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:: Eliax Blog - Para Mentes Curiosas... :: — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:59:07 +0000

Ethernet a 100 Gigabits por segundo…

Infinera, una empresa basado en San Jose, California, EEUU, acaba de anunciar la prueba exitosa de una red Ethernet funcionando a 100 Gigabits (y eso, que apenas nos estábamos acostumbrando a 1 Gbps…). Lo lograron combinando 10 cables de 10Gbps cada…

By: Andrew Schmitt

Andrew Schmitt — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:39:24 +0000

Note, people should really follow the link to the Infinera site. I initially assumed this was link aggregation over 10x 10GE signals (see comment above) and I was wrong. This is a real 100GE solution, albeit proprietary, but with efforts underway to standardize it.

What is VERY interesting is the high integration inherent in Infinera's approach gives them a distinct advantage in this type of solution.

By: Jeff Ferry

Jeff Ferry — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:49:42 +0000

Great to see all the comments here on the Infinera 100GbE demo. I must point out–this is not a vanity project, but a serious effort to develop and propose a solution that works for higher Ethernet speeds for the entire industry. We do believe the issue of very large packets can be dealt with effectively. See further details from my colleague Ted Sprague at http://www.infinerablog.com.
Jeff Ferry
Infinera

By: The Ugly American

The Ugly American — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:20:02 +0000

@chris writes "US seems to lag in Broadband speeds compared to some European and Korea, is the industry deliberately doing this for profits or is it just the way it is?"

One of the main problems is that the US is very large and sparsley populated. Something like 90% of South Koreans (I assume you weren't including North Korea. They just got hamburgers there, I'm certain they don't have FTTP yet) are found in three relatively dense metro areas. Not only are there no Iowas to deal with, there's not even a Connecticut or New Jersey.

So no, there's not a telecoms industry plot to somehow increase profits by NOT selling customers the services they want. There's geography and demographics.

By: michael

michael — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:26:38 +0000

Well, I can't think of any who have done what they want with their networks, and are actually still around, at least at their previous stature, or aren't teetering from debt, but that's right, they can do exactly what they want with them, at their own risk. I might not like what they have done, but I can't see anything wrong with it. Who among them are NOT in business to make money?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:46:31 +0000

Forgot to add this Google video link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7721811042676487407&q=net+at+risk&hl=en

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:43:28 +0000

You guys wondering why the US is so behind when compared to Europe and Asia should take a look at some of the reasons.

This is a great PBS doc about Net neutrality and the fiber network the telcos promised to build us in the 90s but didn’t:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/index.html

By: Tech Gadgets

Tech Gadgets — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:26:53 +0000

Ethernet speeds raised to 100 gigabits per second…

Filed under: Networking Our consumer-grade home DSL is starting to look pretty paltry compared to the…

By: Andrew Schmitt

Andrew Schmitt — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:59:24 +0000

Great. We go from discussing an interesting tech demonstration to pissing on American infrastructure.

Those who own the networks can do whatever the f*ck they want with them. That's what ownership is. If you don't like it, move to North Korea.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:39:18 +0000

I believe that entrenched incumbent service providers deliberately slow the pace higher bandwidth consumer offerings. They certainly fall well behind the pace of Moore's Law. Now, with VoIP and IPTV, and other potentially vastly profitable content on demand services that require more bandwidth in the home, we are starting to see higher speed DSL offerings, Fiber (FIOS) and other services.

Those who own the networks do not innovate to deliver greater value to the consumer. Those who own the networks innovate, begrudgingly, in order to facilitate new revenue streams.

By: MR2

MR2 — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 21:44:59 +0000

While Infinera's FPGA inverse-mux is cool, and Drew is one of the smartest guys around, the development is essentially a work-around for the inadequacy of the US telecom infrastructure.

NTT has demonstrated 111Gbps per lambda in a field deployment over 160Km.

Rather than heaping praise on a company that has a technology hack to circumvent the limitations of the carrier, why aren't we heaping scorn on the carrier for being tardy in deploying cutting edge technology.

http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news06e/0609/060929a.html

[Each lambda was] modulated at 111 Gbps using the CSRZ-DQPSK

160-km transmission was successfully achieved by amplifying these signals in newly developed optical amplifiers.

NTT demonstrated in this experiment, for the first time, that it is possible to transmit 100 Gbps signal with forward error correction2 bytes and management overhead bytes of the OTN3 frame over long distances allowing the construction of large capacity optical networks that offer 10 Tbps or more.