Tips & Trends: 10GBASE-T adoption status and forecast

Adoption and forecast for Ethernet 10GBase-T now available

Tips & Trends: 10GBASE-T adoption status and forecast Saqib Jang, Margalla Communications 9/27/2012 1:57 PM EDT 10GBASE-T is the standard technology that enables 10 Gigabit Ethernet operations over balanced twisted-pair copper, including Category 6A unshielded and shielded cabling. 10GBASE-T provides great flexibility in network design due to its 100-meter reach capability, and also provides the requisite backward compatibility that allows most end users to transparently upgrade from existing 100/1000-Mbps networks. Cost and power dissipation of 10GBASE-T PHYs is significantly reduced with newer 40-nm PHY devices, and further reductions enabled by 28-nm devices are expected in 2013. Network equipment vendors can now capitalize on the fundamental advantages offered by 10GBASE-T technology. New 10GBASE-T physical layers allow lower-cost and lower-power high-density designs. ...

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