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25G/50G Ethernet Specification Finalized

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 01 2017, @10:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the hooking-up dept.

takyon writes:

The 25G Ethernet Consortium has released a 25G/50G Ethernet specification to the public:

There's already product a-plenty on the market, but it still matters that the Google-led 25G Ethernet consortium has formalised the release of its technical specification. It follows the publication of the final report from last August's 25G/50G Ethernet plugfest. The plugfest demonstrated an impressive 882 25G link configurations (843 of which passed the test), and 360 50G link configurations (341 passed).

[...] As well as the specification (published by the 25G Consortium, registration required), the group will publish a list of certified integrators. In its statement, the 25G Consortium says the plugfest also demonstrated backwards compatibility (for example with 10 Gbps Ethernet connections).

Also at FierceTelecom. Wikipedia link.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by FunkyLich on Thursday February 02 2017, @01:33AM

    by FunkyLich (4689) on Thursday February 02 2017, @01:33AM (#461856)

    I went to the site, had a look around. What I noticed within seconds was logos of very commercial companies at the front page, prominently occupying a good portion of the page. Arista, Broadcom, Google, Mellanox, Microsoft. Of these I have no idea what Arista and Mellanox are, but I wildly guess them to be companies with deep pockets, large armies of lawyers and secret libraries where patents and "Intellectual Propriety" files are guarded by nuclear weapons.
    Then I thought to maybe check the specification. I am sure I would have not understood most of it, but there is no harm in trying to see what best of tech standards look like. So I followed that "please click here" link...
    ... and was presented with a form where I had to enter name and surname and email and employer(??). And the words immediately following these were: "Intellectual Property Rights Notice for Final Specifications".

    That's when I sighed and closed the browser tab. I know it is my own fault, for thinking 'RFC' when I saw the word 'specification' in TFS.

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  • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday February 02 2017, @05:06AM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday February 02 2017, @05:06AM (#461885)

    TFS did say "registration required" (to read the spec).

    Always a bad sign, as you pointed out.