INTRODUCTION TO ETHERNET 10G
- Clarifying the various types of Ethernet 10G PHYs
- Maintaining backwards compatibility with Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps
- Full duplex only operation
MAC / PHY INTERFACE
- MAC frame assembly
- XGMII transfer protocol, the 4 Bytes lanes
- XAUI electrical interface, delay constraints
MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
- Extension to this Clause 22 specification
- MDIO Manageable Device
- Electrical interface
10GBASE-X
- PCS and PMA sublayers
- 8b/10b coding
- PCS code-groups, utilization of control characters for signalling
- Control code groups
- SKIP sequence
- PMD 10GBASE-LX4
- Introduction to transmission on optical fiber
- Wave Division Multiplexing
- PMD 10GBASE-CX4
- Using a twinaxial cable
- Test fixture characteristics
10GBASE-W/R PCS
- 10GBASE-W/R PCS layer
- Block formats
- 64b-66b encoder
- Scrambler
- Test pattern functionality
- WAN Interface Sublayer (10GBASE-W)
- Introduction to SONET / SDH
- Framing, scrambling, defect/anomaly detection
- Mapping of data-units from the PCS into the payload capacity of a STS-192c SPE
- Receiver, delineation of octet boundaries, checking the BIP octets
- Error propagation
- PMA type serial
- XSBI interface
- Signal detect handling
- PMD,TYPE 10GBASE-S, 10GBASE-L, 10GBASE-E
- Link power budgets
- Tests
- PMD registers
- APM QT2035 SFI/XFI-XAUI PHY and S19235 SONET/SDH transceiver
ELECTRICAL DISPERSION COMPENSATION
- Chromatic dispersion
- Polarization dispersion
- Modal dispersion
- Equalization algorithms
- Linear vs Limiting electrical interface
PMD, TYPE 10GBASE-LRM (Long Reach Multimode)
- Preferred launch, alternative launch
- Fiber types
- Measurement methods
10GBASE-T
- 16-level PAM signaling
- Two-dimensional (2D) symbols
- 2D symbol selection from a constrained constellation of 128 maximally spaced 2D symbols
- 65-bit block formats
- Link training, master / slave operation
- Scrambling
- Signaling, forward error correction
- Test pattern generators
- PMA stages
- Compensating for signal attenuation
- 10GBASE-T PHY specific registers
- Auto-negotiation, page utilization
- MDI specification, automatic MDI/MDI-X configuration
- Test modes, test fixtures
ENHANCED SMALL FORM FACTOR PLUGGABLE MODULE SFP+
- Low speed electrical and power specification
- High speed electrical specification
- I2C interface
10G BACKPLANES
- Introduction to 10G backplane clauses
- 10GBASE-KX4
- 10GBASE-KR
- Autonegotiation for Ethernet backplanes
- Forward Error Correction (FEC)