10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard Effort Nears Ratification.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2001 10 Gigabit Task Force Resolves All Outstanding Technical Issues and Moves to Sponsor Ballot 10 GbE Standard Effort Remains On Track For Ratification in First Half of 2002 The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10GEA GEA - Graph Extended ALGOL. Extension of ALGOL 60 for graph manipulation, on UNIVAC 1108. "A Language for Treating Graphs", S. Crespi-Reghizzi et al, CACM 13(5) (May 1970). ) today announced that the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. P802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet) Task Force has given approval for the current draft of the standard to go to Sponsor Ballot. This marks one of the final milestones in the multi-year effort towards ratification of a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) standard. It is a direct result of the resolution of all outstanding technical issues and keeps the 10GbE standard effort on track for ratification in the first half of 2002. "Essentially, all the technical work related to the formation of the standard is complete," commented Brad Booth, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE P802.3ae Task Force and Strategic Marketing Manager for Intel's LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. Access Division. "I want to thank the members of the Working Group and the Task Force for their tremendous effort the past six months. As a result of their hard work, I am proud to say we remain on schedule for completion of the standard in the first half of next year." "Customers are very excited about 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology and products. Many Ethernet companies have shipped or are about to ship 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules for switches, routers, and other devices for enterprise and service provider customers. These customers are deploying 10 Gigabit solutions in local and metro networks," stated Bruce Tolley, Vice President for the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance and Manager of Emerging Technologies for Cisco Systems. Following the recent IEEE P802.3ae Task Force meeting in Austin, Texas on November 14-16, the Working Group recirculation Noun 1. recirculation - circulation again circulation - the spread or transmission of something (as news or money) to a wider group or area ballot of IEEE Draft P802.3ae/D3.4 did not generate further technical comments and was overwhelmingly approved. This permitted the P802.3ae Task Force to submit IEEE Draft P802.3ae/D4.0 for Sponsor Ballot. Also, during last month's meeting, the Task Force agreed that all technical feasibility requirements had been satisfied, a major criteria for moving to Sponsor Ballot. Work by P802.3ae Task Force feasibility subgroups and the recent 18 vendor 10 GbE technology demonstration, hosted by the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance at the NetWorld+Interop show in Atlanta in September, paved the way for this agreement. Companies that contributed products to the technology demonstration included: Agilent; AMCC AMCC Applied Micro Circuits Corporation AMCC Air Mobility Control Center AMCC Ashore Mobile Contingency Communications AMCC Advanced Materials Commercialization Center AMCC allied movement coordination center (US DoD) ; Avaya, Inc.; Broadcom, Corp.; CDT CDT abbr. Central Daylight Time CDT Central Daylight Time CDT n abbr (US) (= Central Daylight Time) → hora de verano del centro; (BRIT Corp.; Cisco Systems; Extreme Networks, Inc.; Foundry Networks; Intel Corp.; Ixia; Lucent Technologies; MindSpeed; Nortel Networks; PMC-Sierra, Inc.; Picolight; Spirent Communications; Tyco Electronics; and Velio Communications. About 10 Gigabit Ethernet Positioned as a high-speed, unifying technology for networking applications in LANs, MANs, and WANs, 10 Gigabit Ethernet will provide simple, high bandwidth at relatively low cost. In LAN applications, 10 Gigabit Ethernet will enable organizations to scale their packet-based networks from 10 Mbps to 10,000 Mbps, thereby leveraging their investments in Ethernet. In MAN and WAN applications, 10 Gigabit Ethernet will enable service providers and others to create extremely high-speed longer distance Ethernet links at very competitive cost. For specific information about the IEEE P802.3ae visit the IEEE web site at http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/index.html. About the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance was organized to facilitate and accelerate the introduction of 10 Gigabit Ethernet into the networking market. It was founded by networking industry leaders: 3Com (Nasdaq:COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) ), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO CSCO Cisco Systems Incorporated (stock symbol) CSCO Chief Supply Chain Officer ), Extreme Networks (Nasdaq:EXTR), Intel (Nasdaq:INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ), Nortel Networks (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NT), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), and World Wide Packets. Additionally, the Alliance supports the activities of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet committee, fosters the development of the 802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet) standard, and promotes interoperability among 10 Gigabit Ethernet products. For more information, visit their web site at www.10gea.org. |
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