100 Gigabit Ethernet Standard Ratified

The IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet standard has been ratified by who else? The IEEE P802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet Task Force.

Ubiquitous acceptance of bandwidth-rigorous technologies and applications, such as converged system services, video-on-demand, and social networking, is producing rapidly escalating demand for higher-rate throughput.

Non-standard 100Gb/s setups have already appeared in the field for example, the Dutch education networkers at SURF net announced Monday that they had achieved 100Gb/s speeds on T Series Core Routers from Juniper Networks. Global Quotes notes that Cisco, Brocade, and Extreme Networks have also developed 100Gb/s Ethernet routers, cards, and switches.

But as was true after the long and sore 802.11n wireless networking standards process, developers of current 100Gb/s hardware shouldn't have a complex time making the indispensable tweaks if any to be fully 802.3ba-compliant.