The 10X10 MSA is proud to announce that the 2 km specification is complete and can be found on the 10X10 MSA website at (http://10x10msa.org/documents.htm ). The standard was unanimously approved by the members and several companies plan to make products compliant to the standard. Taking less than three months to create from start to finish, the specification was modeled after IEEE specifications and includes illustrative link budgets and information on how to implement the solution in the CFP Form Factor.
Since the 2km standard is complete, the MSA has agreed to develop more standards. The standards that are being considered include:
1. 10X10-10km Technical Specification: A module compliant to the 10km standard will have a larger link budget of 3dB in channel loss (10km * 0.3dB/km) vs the 2km link budget of only 0.6dB (2 km * 0.3 dB/km). The 10 km module will interoperate with the 2km module up to a distance of 2 km.
2. 10X10-40km Technical Specification: This proposal would be for long haul applications that send signals over 40km with technology similar to 10GBASE-ER in the C-Band.
3. 10X10HD Form Factor Specification: The 10X10 MSA is investigating implementing the 10X10 specification in a smaller form factor that uses the CPPI electrical interface instead of the CAUI electrical interface. These electrical interfaces were defined in the 100GbE standard (802.3ba) and CPPI does not require retimers, so less power is required in the module than when the retimed CAUI is used. The power consumption goal of the new module is to consume only 6 Watts of power compared to 14 Watts for the CAUI-based 10X10 modules. Modules that are CPPI-based will interoperate with CAUI-based modules.
4. 10X10-1310nm Specification: The group is investigating a 2km solution based on 1310nm laser arrays that could consume less power than the 10X10-2km modules.
So many standards, so little time.
To hear more about the 10X10 MSA and how the technology is going to be used, visit multiple presentations at OFC between March 7 and 10th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Meetings or talks that address various aspects of the 10X10 standards include:
1) 10X10 Open Meeting: Tuesday, March 8th at 9-10am Pacific at the Standard Hotel 12th Floor Penthouse, 550 South Flower Street at Sixth Street Los Angeles, CA. 90071
Agenda:
9:05-9:15 – Release of 10X10 Optical Specification, Forming new MSA for Higher Density Form Factor and 10km Link standard
9:15-9:30 – Huawei presents on 1310nm 10X10 solution
9:30 -9:35 – Oplink will present on the 10X10-40km solution
9:35-9:45 - Santur presentation on High Density 10X10 Module
9:45-9:55 – Discussion on Higher Density From Factor
9:55-10:00 – Closing remarks
2) Arlon Martin of Kotura will speak on Monday at 1:15 at the OIDA Silicon Photonics Workshop on “Developing a Roadmap for High-Performance Optical Interconnects”: http://www.oida.org/events/silicon11
3) Bikash Koley of Google speaks on the “Where is the Optical Component Market Going?” panel on Monday at 4:00-5:30: http://www.osa.org/corporate_gateway/corporate_programs/executive_forum/Schedule_Panels/default.aspx
4) Scott Kipp of Brocade speaks on Monday at 4:00 “The Limits of Switch Bandwidth” at the “Meeting the Computercom Challenge Symposium II: Emerging Interconnect Technologies”: http://www.ofcnfoec.org/home/Program/Special-Symposia.aspx
5) Donn Lee of Facebook will present Wednesday at 3:30 on “Scaling Networks in Large Data Centers”: http://www.ofcnfoec.org/osa.ofc/media/Default/PDF/2011/DataComAbstracts11.pdf
6) Scott Kipp of Brocade speaks on Thursday from 10-12 in the “Data Center: Traffic and Technology Drivers” panel: http://www.ofcnfoec.org/Home/Exhibit-Displays-and-Activities/Market-Watch-Panel-Sessions/Panel-IV--Data-Center--Traffic-and-Technology-Driv.aspx
7) Vijay Vusirikala of Google will speak on Thursday at 1:30 on “Drivers and Applications of Optical Technologies for Internet Data Center Networks”: http://www.ofcnfoec.org/InvitedCategory1.aspx
It’s going to be an exciting week at OFC for 10X10.
Kind regards,
10X10 MSA
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