Abstract:
The mainstream per lane rate technology today is 10G. The entire copper and optical high speed interconnect industry is built around, supporting, on chip-to-module, chip-to-chip, backplane, copper cable, MMF and SMF optics. The supported applications are 10Gb/s, 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet with lane widths of 1, 4, and 10 respectively. The industry is now transitioning to 25Gb/s per lane technology, which support the full set of copper and optics applications for 25Gb/s, 100Gb/s, and first generation 400Gb/s Ethernet, with lane widths of 1, 4, and 16. The next mainstream, high volume per lane technology will be 50Gb/s, and it will again support the full set of copper and optics applications for future 50Gb/s, 100Gb/s, future 200Gb/s and follow-on generation 400Gb/s Ethernet, with lane widths of 1, 2, 4, and 8. Just as industry gained tremendous synergy with focus on 10Gb/s, and then 25Gb/s technology, so industry will reap the same benefits from focus on 50Gb/s technology.
Presenter: Chris Cole, Finisar