10Gigabit Ethernet is an emerging technology offering data speeds up to 10 billion bits per second.. At the recent IEEE 10Gigabit/s Ethernet standard working group meeting it was announc
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10GigaBit Over Copper!
Bandwidth Bring It On
10Gigabit Ethernet is an emerging technology
offering data speeds up to 10 billion bits per
second This latest standard has been driven not
only by the increase in normal data traffic but also
by the proliferation of new, bandwidth-intensive
applications
At the recent IEEE 10Gigabit/s Ethernet standard
working group meeting it was announced that
international structured cabling company KRONE
had made a breakthrough The company has
demonstrated the first augmented Category 6
cable in the world with the necessary characteristics
to enable 10Gigabit/s Ethernet to be implemented
over unshielded twisted pair (UTP) to the full 100
meters required for structured cabling systems
The test results on KRONE’s new cable were
independently confirmed by one of the leading
Ethernet electronics vendors involved in the
development of 10Gigabit/s technology and the
10GBASE-T Ethernet standard Presenting the
results, KRONE’s Senior Project Manager Bernie
Hammond said, “Our presentation to the IEEE
today shows that KRONE has demonstrated its
ability to produce a UTP cable that exceeds the
requirements outline to run 10Gigabit/s Ethernet
over a 100-meter, unshielded twisted-pair copper
channel.” Most industry experts had concluded that
it would be extremely difficult to overcome the
technical combination of insertion loss and alien
cross talk, or interference from adjacent cables,
with UTP cable - the most prolific type of enterprise
networking cable in the world
“By demonstrating that 10Gigabit Ethernet can
be achieved over UTP cabling, our engineers have
once again demonstrated KRONE’s unmatched
commitment to technological innovation,” said
KRONE’s President and Chief Operating Officer Ron
Lowy “We are delighted to be the first in the world
to reach this remarkable milestone.”
This new augmented Cat 6 UTP copper cable was designed and developed at KRONE’s U.S copper cable-manufacturing facility in Sidney, Nebraska The cable demonstrated Shannon Capacity of 21Gigabit/s due to the improved alien cross-talk immunity and the reduced insertion loss - which is more than adequate for the 10Gigabit/s Ethernet implementations being considered by the IEEE standard working group
With the onset of IP convergence, bringing a wealth of voice, video and data services to a single cable infrastructure, bandwidth demand hand in hand with network reliability and Quality of Service (QoS), will drive increasing bandwidth requirements
to the desktop
The emergence of grid computing will be a key technology that, in the not too distant future, will drive bandwidth requirements into the horizontal cable infrastructure Grid computing will essentially
“cluster” together desktop workstations and PCs to contribute idle CPU cycles to create a large, virtual server where performance scales as more users are added This technology may supplant centralised servers allowing for the creation of very powerful virtual servers scaling to user requirements In essence the horizontal network connectivity between desktop workstations becomes an external high speed server bus Thus the requirement for bandwidth and reliable, error free processing will be pushed out to the desktop network interconnect
Only KRONE’S TrueNet®
zero bit error rate cabling solution coupled with this latest announcement regarding demonstrable 10Gigabit Ethernet capability will provide the necessary infrastructure
to enable cost effective grid deployment across organisations