Next generation backplane and copper cable challenges

Author

Cideciyan, Roy D. ; Gustlin, Mark ; Li, Mike Peng ; Wang, Jiacheng ; Zhongfeng Wang

Volume

51

Issue

12

fYear

2013

fDate

Dec-13

Firstpage

130

Lastpage

136

Abstract

This article provides an overview of some of the work that is ongoing in the IEEE P802.3bj 100 Gb/s Backplane and Copper Cable Task Force. The task force is standardizing Ethernet at 100 Gb/s over a 4-lane backplane channel as well as across a 4-lane copper cable. We first describe the background of the market drivers for this technology, and then give an overview of the various technologies that are used to solve the challenging problems of running across the various mediums at a data rate of 25 Gb/s. Also discussed are the details of the forward error correction, transcoding and physical layer coding that are employed to achieve robust links.

Keywords

cables (electric); data communication; forward error correction; local area networks; next generation networks; transcoding; 4-lane backplane channel; 4-lane copper cable; IEEE P802.3bj; backplane task force; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; bit rate 25 Gbit/s; copper cable challenges; copper cable task force; data rate; forward error correction; next generation backplane; physical layer coding; robust links; transcoding; Copper cables; Forward error correction; IEEE 802.3 standards; Insertion loss; Next generation networking; Optical signal processing; Transcoding;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2013.6685768

Filename

6685768