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| Ixia Demonstrates 40 Gigabit Ethernet Testing Capability Ixia will demonstrate 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) line-rate traffic generation and analysis Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at Broadband World Forum Europe in Brussels. This industry-first, proof-of-concept demonstration follows a demonstration of 100 GE held in June at NxtComm'08 with Infinera and XO Communications, in which 100 GE traffic was transmitted over a live link from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and back. The Ixia 40 GE proof-of-concept demonstration includes an implementation of and testing facility for the 40/100 GE physical coding sublayer (PCS) layer approved as the baseline proposal by the IEEE 802.3ba task force, with its underlying multilane distribution (MLD) architecture. MLD enables network providers to bond multiple 10 GE or higher-speed lanes into a single logical 40/100 GE link. MLD provides a means of "striping" a 40 Gbps flow into multiple "virtual" lanes. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Networking News :: home page |