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News Release from: Avago Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 May 2001
New names in 10 Gigabit Ethernet MSA
group
Agere Systems and Agilent Technologies have announced that Mitsubishi Electric, Pine Photonics Communications, Optillion and Tyco Electronics have joined the 10Gb Ethernet multi-source agreement group
Agere Systems and Agilent Technologies have announced that Mitsubishi Electric, Pine Photonics Communications, Optillion and Tyco Electronics have joined the 10 Gigabit Ethernet multi-source agreement (MSA) group and will supply devices that match the form factor defined by the MSA IBM Microelectronics also intends to develop 10 Gigabit Ethernet products that conform to the MSA guidelines
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The MSA, announced by Agere and Agilent in March 2001 and now known as "Xenpak," supports the proposed IEEE 10 Gigabit Ethernet interoperability standard, and specifies a uniform form factor, size, connector type and electrical pin-outs.
All seven companies expect to independently develop and market 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceivers based on the proposed IEEE standard and this MSA.
"The design input we've received from these new member companies has helped us build a very strong physical standard for the industry," said Mike Peppler, strategic marketing manager at Agere Systems.
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"By incorporating the expertise of various suppliers, we've created an open design that can be used by other transceiver manufacturers." The MSA covers all four transceiver types defined in the proposed standard, including 850 nanometers (nm) serial, 1310 nm serial, 1310 nm WWDM and 1550 nm serial.
The transceiver modules defined by this MSA are 36 millimeters (mm) (1.5 inches) wide, 121 mm (4.8 inches) long and 17.4 mm (0.7 inches) high.
The specified dimensions will allow eight devices to be mounted on typical line cards.
The transceivers will be front-panel-pluggable devices connecting to a host circuit board in the "Z" plane through a board-mounted card-edge connector.
Tyco Electronics designed and will produce the electrical connector.
The electrical input/output is based on the four wire XAUI (10 gigabit attachment unit interface).
The optical interface will be a standard SC duplex fiber optic connector.
Additional details of the MSA will be made available at a later date.
The Xenpak MSA group will open its membership to other transceiver manufacturers as well.
"The Xenpak MSA defines a robust, easy-to-use packaging standard to help expedite the convergence of networking applications at 10 gigabits," said Euan Livingston, marketing manager for Agilent's Fiber Optic Business Unit.
"I've never seen this level of interest in a multi-source agreement before, from both equipment companies and optical electronic vendors alike." "IBM intends to develop transceivers based on the proposed MSA because it lays out a robust and flexible approach to supporting all of the approved IEEE physical media-dependent specifications," said Dale Crist, transport business line manager for IBM.
"This common transceiver design can enable new IBM transceivers that deliver greater bandwidth, capacity, speed and security to the data and e-business transactions of today and the future." The member companies expect to begin shipping 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceivers based on this MSA later this year. Request free introductory details about products from Avago Technologies ...
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