Infinera unveils 100Gbps Ethernet Connection

Infinera along with University of California, Internet 2 and Level3 Communications has developed and demonstrated a 100Gbps Ethernet connection that could carry data over a 4000 Km fiber network.

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The technology slices the data to be transferred into different parts and then transmits it over multiple channels. The slicing is based on a packet-reordering algorithm that preserves the order in which the packets have to be received.

A single Xilinx FPGA implements this numbering scheme and electrically transmits all the signals to Finisar's 10Gbps XFP optical transceivers which in turn converts the signals to optics which are further transmitted to an Infinera DTN DWDM system.

These packets with the special numbering scheme are further rearranged at the receiver end and bonded together.

The IEEE has also set up a Higher Speed Study Group that is looking for the specifications for high speed Ethernet.

Such a High speed Ethernet is the need of today as it is needed for the ever growing demand of bandwidth and the video over IP service also needs Ethernet fast enough to travel at 100Gbps.

Via: gigaom