Ethernet Alliance ECOC 2019 Demo Points to The 800GbE Future
Summary
With higher speeds and longer reaches, it’s now pushing past its history as an innovative consumer technology into diverse new markets and application spaces like enterprise storage, automotive, and building automation,” said Greg McSorley, president, Ethernet Alliance; and technical business development manager, Amphenol Corp. “The 400GbE era is here but it’s only a stepping stone along the road to 800GbE. " – Christophe Metivier, vice president, manufacturing and platform engineering, Arista Networks “Cisco is pleased to participate in the Ethernet Alliances Interop demo with its Cloud Scale based Nexus 9000 switches to help showcase the maturity of 400G products and their readiness for industry deployment.” – Hardev Singh, Cisco Nexus 9000 product manager “Together with Ethernet Alliance and collaborating industry partners, EXFO is proud to participate in several exciting interoperability demonstrations at ECOC 2019. Live demos will showcase: 400G Ethernet traffic using multiple interfaces, including QSFP-DD and OSFP; a 200G multivendor interconnection; and 100G testing featuring the latest optical transceiver technologies. High sensitivity and repeatability maximize production yields in the 400GbE and beyond markets.” – Mehmet Aslan, general manager of wideband solutions business unit, Tektronix “Ethernet growth is unprecedented with equipment manufacturers offering 400GbE switches, 50GbE and 100GbE NICs, and these new speeds are fueling advanced storage applications among other leading-edge use cases. Teledyne LeCroy’s SierraNet product family fulfills a critical requirement towards achievement of that goal.” – David J. Rodgers, senior product marketing manager, ENET/SAN protocol tools, Teledyne LeCroy “Being part of the Ethernet Alliance stand at ECOC 2019 in Dublin is an excellent opportunity for Xena to demonstrate how Valkyrie, Xenas industry-leading 400GE traffic generation and analysis platform, makes it easy to test and measure the speed, features and broad interoperability of the latest generation of PAM4/400GE Ethernet equipment now reaching the market.