And now 100 Gig Ethernet

In two papers presented to the European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC) at Scotland today, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs announced the first reported transmissions of 100 Gbps Ethernet over an optical connection. These results are a significant milestone in the industry’s march towards migrating to 100Gbps data networking. Read at: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=81596

New standard for Power over Ethernet

The IEEE 802.3 has created a new task force to develop an enhanced Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard, dubbed PoEPlus, based on the objectives of the IEEE PoEPlus Study Group.

The future PoE standard will allow delivery of at least 30 watts to powered devices such as Voice over IP phones, Wireless LAN Access Points, etc. The existinh 802.3af standard allws for up tp 12.95 watts of power.

Ethernet PON becoming technology of choice in Japan

A new research report from IDC mentions that the optical fiber access market shall reach $1.9 billion in 2009. Th emergence of “triple play” services will increase the demand for bandiwdth in the access network. It also mentions that Japan will focus on Ethernet PON technology. Read news at:
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=81371

Quake to demonstrate lowest power 10 Gb Ethernet IC

Quake Technologies shall demonstrate QT2032 at ECOC next month at Glasgow, Scotland in association with Opnext. Quake is a leading provider of 10 Gbps Ethernet physical layer ICs.

Force 10 Networks raises VC funding of $40 million

Lightreading reports that the 10 Gigabit Ethernet rouiter startup has raised another $40 million from VC’s which it says should be sufficient to carry it to its IPO. Visit company website at: http://www.force10networks.com and Lightreading news at:
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=81101&WT.svl=news1_1

CERN building grid computing farm with 10 Gig Ethernet

The grid compute farm will cluster 6,000 processors and 2,000 storage devices, and is expected to yield a massive 2.4Tbit/s of processing power. E-Series boxes of Force 10 networks is being usedi as the hub, which can support up 10 56 10 Gig Ethernet ports. Read news at:

http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4432