10 Gigabit Ethernet
Bandwidth: 12.5 Gbit/s Payload: 10 Gbit/s
4 Fibers at 1/4 speed, 4X Coarse Wavelength Multiplexing
Distance Covered ( single fiber ):
300 m. Multi mode 50 Km Single mode
Transfer: Full Duplex Fibers
Frame size: 1500 Bytes Ethernet
Protocol: TCP/IP follows IEEE 802.3 full 48 bit addressing
Non Blocking Switches and Routers are foreseen.
WAN Connections: Direct transfer on OC192
Standard IEEE 802.3ae: to be Finished in 2003
First Commercial hardware: 2004 / 2005