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PISCATAWAY, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet protocols with operating speeds of 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s are one step closer to reality. Project completion and final approval as a standard are expected in June 2010.

On Friday November 20th, the IEEE 802 Executive Committee approved forwarding the draft of the next higher speed Ethernet standard for Sponsor balloting, the final of two stages of balloting. The sponsor balloting phase will commence in November. “Once the Sponsor ballot has been completed, the draft standard will be submitted for approval by the IEEE-SA Standards Board as an IEEE standard,” says John D’Ambrosia, Chair of the IEEE P802.3ba Task Force.

IEEE P802.3ba™ will be known by its full name of “IEEE Standard for Information Technology – Telecommunications and Information Exchange Between Systems – Local and Metropolitan Area Networks – Specific Requirements Part 3: Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications – Amendment: Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Operation.”

The project aims to extend the existing IEEE 802.3™ Ethernet protocol to operating speeds of 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s in order to provide a significant increase in bandwidth while maintaining maximum compatibility with the installed base of IEEE 802.3 interfaces, previous investment in research and development, and principles of network operation and management. The project is to provide for the interconnection of equipment satisfying the distance requirements identified for network aggregation and computing applications.

Wow how cool would it be to scale up Ethernet to 40GB/100GB? This would further the possibilities of bandwidth both for rich media content distribution, for backups and data transfer, but also most importantly create further opportunities and possibilities in data center virtualization. The concept in which I can fail not just workloads, but data centers between geographical locations where the data center becomes the application, in which I have my applications my services running wherever the electricity is cheapest, wherever the business mandates it for operational or legislative reasons. Business continuity becomes a reality rather than an abstract what if concept, a process in which I can have New York hosting London workloads whilst London gets that power upgrade, that data center refresh or hardware refresh for energy efficiency, performance or operational reasons. Upgrading the server, the network switch during the business day, having a dynamic infrastructure with the ability to scale becomes a reality, with that come the business possibilities. Want to start a new trading floor, a new business in Namibia, a web presence specifically for the Korean market, not a problem, we have spare capacity in New York for one part and capacity in Hong Kong but we can build it here then send it over.

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