{"id":3942,"date":"2010-11-13T13:26:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:45:40","slug":"terabit-ethernet-developing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/terabit-ethernet-developing\/","title":{"rendered":"Terabit Ethernet Developing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TerabitResearchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara<\/a> (UCSB<\/a>) are working on the next evolution of Ethernet<\/a> – Terabit Ethernet. UCSB Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dan Blumenthal told LightReading<\/em><\/a> that the goal of the recently created Terabit Optical Ethernet Center (TOEC<\/a>), is to create Terabit Ethernet (TbE<\/a>) which runs at 1 trillion bits per second by 2015 and to follow it up with 100Tbit\/s Ethernet by 2020.<\/p>\n

Professor Blumenthal explained to LightReading<\/em> that he wants the TOEC and its partners to produce something the industry can use, not a one-time lab experiment that only works with duct tape and glue. “We’re not talking about lab hero experiments,” Blumenthal told LightReading<\/em>. The real-world focus of TOEC has helped attract partners like\u00a0 Agilent Technologies Inc.<\/a> (NYSE: A<\/a>), Google<\/a> (NASDAQ: GOOG<\/a>), Intel Corp<\/a>. (NASDAQ: INTC<\/a>), Rockwell Collins Inc., and Verizon Communications Inc.<\/a> (NYSE: VZ<\/a>) to help with the research. I wrote<\/a> about Intel’s TBPS efforts back in July.<\/p>\n

Terabit Ethernet is hard<\/h3>\n

TOEC could probably use the help because developing TbE is looking like no simple task according to LightReading<\/em>. Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet’s creator, and now a Polaris Venture Partners partner, speculated two years ago that a terabit standard might need a rethinking of everything, even the fiber itself.<\/p>\n

Based on current UCSB research, professor Blumenthal speculates that TbE\u00a0 may include:<\/p>\n