EthernetRoadmap 2020 Side2-FINAL.

pdf 1 2/14/20 4:19 PM

LAT E S T I N T E R FA C E S A N D N O M E N C L AT U R E FAT T E R P I P E S PAT H T O S I N G L E L A N E

Backplane Twinax
Cable
Twisted
Pair
Twisted
Pair
MMF 500m
PSM4
2km
SMF
10km
SMF
20km
SMF
40km
SMF
80km
SMF
Electrical
Interface Higher data rates are achieved by 10T
(1 Pair) (4 Pair) Modulation
using higher sampling rates and Highly Parallel
10BASE– T1S T1S/T1L different modulation techniques. Speeds

Link Speed (b/s)

Coherent -4+ 25Gigabaud sampling may create Quad Speeds
100BASE– T1
25Gb/s NRZ, 50 Gb/s PAM-4 or
1T
1000BASE– T1 T

Bits/Sample
PAM-8 -3 100Gb/s Coherent lanes.
400G Duo Speeds
2.5GBASE– KX T1 T 25G Lane 100G Lane Serial Speeds
PAM-4 -2 50G Lane 400G PMD 200G
5GBASE– KR T1 T
100G Lane 800G PMD
10GBASE– T1 T BIDI Access BIDI Access BIDI Access NRZ -1
100G
LR/
EPON/ ER/
50G
25GBASE– KR CR/CR-S T SR EPON/ 25GAUI
BIDI Access
BIDI Access BIDI Access
25 25G
16
40GBASE–
KR4 CR4 T SR4/eSR4 PSM4 LR4 XLAUI
(S Gi 50 8
12 ion s,
at Lane gths)
10G
FR XLPPI ga i z
am
ba 4 el f n
ple
s/S ud 100 1 a
l o
ral mberWave
le
2000 2010 2020 2030
EPON/ EPON/
BIDI Access LAUI-2/50GAUI-2 ec P Nu or
BIDI Access BIDI Access on ( rs
50GBASE– d) e
KR CR SR FR LxR ER 50GAUI-1
Fib Standard Completed
CR10 SR10 10X10-2km 10X10-10km CAUI-10 CPPI Ethernet Speed Speed in Development Possible Future Speed
CWDM4/ LR4/ ER4/
100GBASE– KR4 CR4 SR4 PSM4 4WDM-20 CAUI-4/100GAUI-4
4WDM-10 4WDM-40 100

Speed/Lane (Gb/s)
400GBASE-DR4 After the data rate/lane is
KR2 CR2 SR2 FR1 LR1 100GAUI-2 chosen, the number of
KR1 CR1 SR1 DR 100G-FR 100G-LR ZR 100GAUI-1
lanes in a link determines
200GBASE– KR4 CR4 SR4 DR4 FR4 LR4 ER4 200GAUI-4 the speed. This chart
KR2 CR2 SR2 200GAUI-2 50 400GBASE-LR8 shows how 4 or 8 lanes
SR16 FR8 LR8 400GAUI-16 can be used to generate
25
SIGNALING METHODS
400GBASE– SR8/SR4.2 FR4 LR4-6 ER8 400GAUI-8 400GbE links.
KR4 CR4 SR4 DR4 400G-FR4 400G-LR4-10 ZR 400GAUI-4

Gray Text = IEEE Standard Red Text = In Standardization Green Text = In Study Group
4 8
Signaling for higher lane
Blue Text = Non-IEEE standard but complies to IEEE electrical interfaces Number of Lanes rates is transitioning from
non-return-to-zero (NRZ)
for 25Gb/s per lane to
four level Pulse-amplitude
C

modulation (PAM-4) for

M
50Gb/s per lane, and
Y

CM
Homes use Ethernet to connect personal computers,
printers, wireless access points, security cameras and Wiring
Closet
Work
Area Enterprises use Ethernet to connect hundreds or thousands of
devices together over Local Area Networks (LANs). Most LANs
ETHERNET Coherent Modulation for
100Gb/s per lane.
MY many more devices. Power over Ethernet enables
data and power to be delivered over one cable.
use BASE-T connectivity, but large buildings and campuses use
multi-mode and singlemode fiber too.
E COSYST E M
CY Equipment
Room NRZ
CMY As streams turn into rivers
K
and flow into the ocean, small
Enterprise Data Centers deploy
Ethernet links flow into large
heterogeneous servers with various service
level agreements and requirements. Ethernet links and flow into
the Internet. The Internet is
formed at Internet Exchange
Cable Company Hyperscale Data
Centers deploy tens or
Points (IXPs) that are spread
hundreds of thousands around the world. The IXPs
Telecommunications of homogeneous
Company connect Telecommunications
servers across PAM-4 Coherent
warehouse scale data Companies, Cable companies,
centers in pods.
Providers and Content
Delivery Networks over
Ethernet in their data centers.
Colocation
Facility

F O R M FAC T O R S
The Internet Exchange Point (IXP) is where the
Internet is made when various networks are This diagram shows the most common form This diagram shows new form factors
interconnected via Ethernet. Co-location facilities factors used in Ethernet ports. Hundreds of initially designed for 100GbE and 400GbE
Ethernet Fabric are usually near the IXP so that they have excellent
millions of RJ45 ports are sold a year while tens Ethernet ports.
Internet access to the Internet and long haul connections.
of millions of SFP and millions of QSFP ports
ship a year. 4+ Lane Interfaces
Co-Location Facility
400GbE
1– 4 Lane Interfaces
Hyperscale
Telephone
Data Center Embedded Optics
400GbE
Company Server Racks E TH E RNE T S PE E DS 0.01-40Gb/s
100GbE ASIC
Cable Company Ethernet Switch 1-100Gb/s
Wireless 10–100M
Backhaul 100GbE
And Router Racks 2-200Gb/s
400 GbE MP
1–5G Twisted Pair O
Cat “x” 40-400Gb/s QS
Patch Panels FP-
DD
Undersea Cable 10G OS
FP
400GbE Storage Racks
e 25–50G
a bl Twinax
aC Storage Network Equipment
r se 100–200G
de CFP2
Un Ethernet Fabric
Transport Equipment 400G QSFP–DD
INTERNET Duplex
Telecom Networks and Parallel
Optical Fiber
Cable Networks
OSFP