1 TbE Transport – Why, When and How?
In this year’s OFC/NFOEC there is a special panel session on Terabit Ethernet organized by Andrew Ellis, Seb Savory respectively from Tyndall Natl. Inst., Ireland, and Univ. College London, UK. Viewing the fact of increasing bandwidth requirement and the success of 100G Ethernet commercial deployment, people are more and more interested in the next generation Ethernet technology, Terabit Ethernet. As highlighted on the OFC/NFOEC website, “this workshop will examine the motivation behind such predictions and discuss the potential requirements for transponders offering such capacities.” It is expected that many attendees would participate in this session and many insightful discussions would be carried out. So far, there is no commercial technology that supports 1 terabit Ethernet and no industrial companies claim to commercialize this type of technology. However, much research in this direction has been started since year 2008 mainly in academy.
