Ethernet White Papers

• Degraded Signal Testing Speeds 10GbE Deployment
  “Perfection” testing relies on added test margins to compensate for real world conditions. These added test margins are often in a state of flux as a new standard is introduced into the network and can delay widespread deployment.
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet Technology Overview
  Under the International Standards Organization’s Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, Ethernet is fundamentally a Layer 2 protocol. 10 Gigabit Ethernet uses the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) protocol, the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet frame format, and the minimum and maximum IEEE 802.3 frame size.
• Optical Fiber and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
  As 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) is introduced into networks the physical limitations and properties of optical fiber introduce new challenges for a network designer. Due to the increased data rate, fiber effects, such as dispersion (intermodal, chromatic or polarization), become a factor in the achievable distances of 10GbE links.
• Introduction to TCP/IP Offload Engine(TOE)
  TCP/IP offload Engine (TOE) is one of the technologies that can reduce the amount of TCP/IP processing handled by microprocessor and server I/O subsystem, and thus ease server networking bottleneck.
• Ethernet – The Next Generation WAN Transport Technology
• The Ethernet Physical Layer as Used in Resilent Packet Ring Systems
• XAUI interface – Introduction to XAUI
• Introduction to iSCSI
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet Interconnection with Wide Area Networks
• Gigabit Ethernet: 1000BASE-T
• Gigabit Ethernet: Accelerating the Standard for Speed
• Running 1000BASE-T: Gigabit Ethernet over Copper

External Related Industry Links
Metro IP Fiber offering – DS3 Killer
Traditional DS3 Bandwidth quotes
SIP Termination