NG Ethernet Forum

OIDA - the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association - is holding a one day meeting in San Jose, CA on August 29th, 2006. It is titled "100Gb Ethernet: The Next Challenge for Communications Systems" and covers the current trends in optoelectronic based packet networks which will evolve from the current 1Gb speed to 10Gb and probably 100Gb lines. Although GFP is gaining ground in SDH-based networks, there is a potential for Ethernet to take over the framing part as well in wide area networks.

As with OIDA, I expect the main focus of the meeting lies on the requirements, design and deployment issues for 100G optical / electrical components.

meeting Agenda