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40 ad 100 Gbp/s Ecosystem is Ready

or Realizatio Accordig to CommScopesResults at Etheret Alliace PlugestCommScopes LazrSPEED solutionsfar exceed industry standard reachFollowig the ratifcatio o the IEEE 802.3ba specifcatio i mid 2010, CommScope wascosulted as a member o the Etheret Alliace to help guide the ormatio o, as well asparticipate i, the idustrys frst-ever iteroperability tests to determie the readiess o the40 ad 100 Gbp/s ecosystems. At the groudbreakig Plugest evet, 16 idustry leadersgathered i a eutral veue to coduct 135 mixed-vedor tests that yielded a success rate o

early 100 percet iteroperability ollowig the 802.3ba stadard. As detailed i the resultsbelow, CommScopes o -the-shel SYSTIMAX LazrSPEED 300 (OM3) ad LazrSPEED 550(OM4) fber optic cables, part o the SYSTIMAX IstaPATCH 360 pre-termiated cabligsolutio, ar exceeded the distace expectatios or fber chaels i Higher Speed Etheret(HSE) data ceter eviromets. (Fig. 1)

Figure 1: 40GBASE-SR4 and 100GBASE-SR10 test set-ups

12-fiber MPO when testing 40GBASE-SR4

24-fiber MPO when testing 100GBASE-SR10

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Multimode fiberBER Tester BER Tester

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Curretly, the IEEE 802.3ba stadard specifes supportable distaces o 100 meters oOM3 fber ad 150 meters o OM4 fber or both 40 ad 100 Gbp/s data rates. Whilethe majority o vedors supported chaels up to these specifcatios or both data rates,

CommScopes results ar exceeded the stadards. Usig a mixed OM3 ad OM4 chaelcosistig o 200 meters o LazrSPEED 300 plus 300 meters o LazrSPEED 550 multimodefber cables with MPO coectors, CommScope supported distaces that were 3.3 times aslog as the OM4 specifcatios ad 5 times as log as the OM3 specifcatios or 40 Gbp/sEtheret. Additioally, CommScope exceeded the 100 Gbp/s Etheret distace specifcatioor 100GBASE-SR10 by a actor o 2.7 or OM3 ad 1.8 or OM4. (Table 1).

TABLE 1 40GBASE-SR4 AnD 100GBASE-SR10 TEST RESULTS

Reach

(m)

Cabling System at End 1

Transceiver Form

System at End 2

Transceiver Form

120 LazrSPEED 300(OM3) 12-fber

40GBASE-SR4 System #2 CFP 40GBASE-SR4 System #2 CFP

40GBASE-SR4 System #2 CFP 40GBASE-SR4 System #2 QSFP

40GBASE-SR4 System #2 QSFP 40GBASE-SR4 System #2 QSFP

40GBASE-SR4 System #3 QSFP 40GBASE-SR4 System #2 CFP





500 LazrSPEED 300 + 550(OM3 + OM4)12-fber (4 concatenatedcables)







270 LazrSPEED 300 + 550(OM3 + OM4)24-fber (4 concatenatedcables)


All the combiatios o CommScope LazrSPEED 550 ad 300 fber ad trasceivers testedwere observed to successully pass the BER test with zero errors. It is importat to ote thatwhile CommScopes 500-meter results or 40 Gbp/s ad 270-meter results or 100 Gbp/sare well above the idustry stadard, either test oud the ull perormace limits o thechaels. These distaces were determied based o the maximum legths o chaels thatcould be assembled rom the cablig at Plugest, which provides a early sapshot o therobustess o CommScopes techologies ad builds cofdece i the HSE ecosystem.

As data ceter applicatios cotiue to icreasigly require aster Etheret speeds, distacebetwee etwork irastructure compoets ad the quality o data trasmissio become challegigcocers. By examiig CommScopes results rom the iteroperability tests, data ceter desigersca cofrm that workig with CommScopes fber solutios ca lead to real-world 40 ad 100Gbp/s deploymet without sacrifcig egieerig desig or vedor choice or compatibleswitches, routers ad test gear provig that its coservative approach to desig ad specifcatioguaratees trasmissio o data at some o the logest distaces available i the market today withample built-i egieerig margi. Additioally, the capability o existig multimode techologyoud i CommScopes IstaPATCH 360 ad LazrSPEED fber solutios is cosiderably greater thathe values set orth by the IEEE 802.3ba stadard. I the uture, CommScopes exteded distacecapabilities will prove useul i addressig real-world topologies i may data ceters at a ar lowercost tha siglemode alteratives.

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