IXIA announced today another successful test of 100GBPS technologies, this time via their Higher Speed Ethernet load module, known as K2, and using a CFP MSA compatible optical module. They're going to have it on display during Interop - hopefully they'll be more info then too.
10 months ago we saw another demo from IXIA, which I wrote about. At the time, we were using forums instead of the blog, and there were a lot of comments from some sharp folks, all mostly centering around the fact that a truly agreed-upon standard for 100GBPS technologies hasn't been hammered out yet. Things have changed a bit since then, but there's still some contention.
It's good to see vendors like IXIA getting things working this early in the process. I'm hopeful that the IEEE will approve things on time (in 2010?) for Higher Speed Ethernet, and we'll be able to use technologies like the K2 for production ready products then.
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