{"id":6677,"date":"2014-10-20T12:37:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:37:31","slug":"planning-the-supercharged-future-of-ethernet-four-new-speeds-are-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/10\/20\/planning-the-supercharged-future-of-ethernet-four-new-speeds-are-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning the supercharged future of Ethernet: Four new speeds are in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2835912\/is-your-ethernet-fast-enough-four-new-speeds-are-in-the-works.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/network_ethernet_cable-100028397-gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethernet\u2019s future is now about much more than the next top speed: The engineers charting a path for the ubiquitous networking protocol are looking at several new versions to serve a variety of applications.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting last Thursday of the Ethernet Alliance, an industry group that promotes IEEE Ethernet standards, three major new projects were up for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>To meet immediate demands in cloud data centers, there\u2019s a standard in the works for 25Gbps (bits per second). For the kinds of traffic expected in those clouds a few years from now, experts are already discussing a 50Gbps specification. And for enterprises with new, fast Wi-Fi access points, there may soon be 2.5Gbps Ethernet. That\u2019s in addition to the next top speed for carrier backbones and moves to adapt the technology for use in cars.<\/p>\n<p>These efforts are all meant to serve a growing demand for Ethernet outside the traditional enterprise LANs for which it was originally designed. That means solving multiple problems instead of just how to get ever more bits onto a fiber or copper wire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m hearing is lots of diversity. Lots of diversity in need, lots of diversity for the future,\u201d Ethernet Alliance Chair John D\u2019Ambrosia said part way into the daylong meeting in Santa Clara, California. \u201cWe\u2019re moving away from an \u2018ethernet everywhere\u2019 with essentially the same sort of flavor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The EA\u2019s annual Technology Exploration Forum is a venue for discussing the kinds of technical details that many participants will go on to debate in various task groups of the IEEE 802.3 Working Group, which sets the official standards for ethernet. Optical and electrical signaling, fiber strands and copper wires, processing power, energy consumption, heat, cost, and other issues all come into play in determining what to build and how.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/2835912\/is-your-ethernet-fast-enough-four-new-speeds-are-in-the-works.html\" target=\"_blank\">Planning the supercharged future of Ethernet: Four new speeds are in the works | PCWorld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethernet\u2019s future is now about much more than the next top speed: The engineers charting a path for the ubiquitous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[331,513],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","category-technology","tag-ethernet","tag-ieee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-1JH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7015,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/12\/03\/supercharged-wi-fi-sparks-ethernet-standard-showdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":6677,"position":0},"title":"Supercharged Wi-Fi sparks Ethernet standard showdown","author":"NCCT","date":"December 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"There\u2019s a standard in the works for ethernet gear to feed faster Wi-Fi access points, but with rival industry groups pushing two different specifications, it might take a while to finish. 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