Road to 100G
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The Road to 100G was a nonprofit corporation formed by its members for the purpose of providing seamless interoperability among the disparate, standards-based components required in building high capacity network elements. On December 31, 2008, the Road to 100G folded its efforts into the Ethernet Alliance
and no longer exists as a separate entity.
The Alliance states that it is a global community of leading innovative silicon, software and equipment vendors, along with service providers, dedicated to creating a vast ecosystem for accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of a new era of next generation networking platforms. These platforms may include performance nodes from 40G (or 40GE/40GbE, 4x10GE/4x10GbE) to 100G (or 100GE or 100GbE).
The Road to 100G Alliance was formally announced on June 19, 2007 at the NXTcomm
2007 show in Chicago
, Illinois
USA . The founding members are Bay Microsystems, Enigma Semiconductor, Integrated Device Technology
(IDT), IP Infusion, An ACCESS Company, and Lattice Semiconductor
.
The alliance is not a standards body, but claims it will deliver proven solutions in the form of complete system designs. It is headquartered in the Silicon Valley
area of California. There is an annual fee to become a member of the Road to 100G Alliance.
Although 100G is generally viewed in terms of Ethernet
(and sometimes referred to as 100GE or 100GbE), the Road to 100G Alliance plans to address non-Ethernet applications such as OTU-3/40G and soon to be developed OTU-4/100G applications as well.
Ethernet Alliance
The Ethernet Alliance was incorporated in the state of California in August 2005 and officially launched in January 2006 as a global non-profit industry consortium to promote and support Ethernet...
and no longer exists as a separate entity.
The Alliance states that it is a global community of leading innovative silicon, software and equipment vendors, along with service providers, dedicated to creating a vast ecosystem for accelerating the adoption and ongoing development of a new era of next generation networking platforms. These platforms may include performance nodes from 40G (or 40GE/40GbE, 4x10GE/4x10GbE) to 100G (or 100GE or 100GbE).
The Road to 100G Alliance was formally announced on June 19, 2007 at the NXTcomm
Nxtcomm
NXTcomm is a company created after the joining of the Telecommunications Industry Associate and the United States Telecom Association in 2006.- McCormick Place :...
2007 show in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
USA . The founding members are Bay Microsystems, Enigma Semiconductor, Integrated Device Technology
Integrated Device Technology
Integrated Device Technology, Inc. is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, that designs, manufactures, and markets low-power, high-performance mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for the advanced communications, computing, and consumer industries. The company...
(IDT), IP Infusion, An ACCESS Company, and Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor
Lattice Semiconductor Corporation is a United States based manufacturer of high-performance programmable logic devices . Founded in 1983, the company employs about 700 people and has annual revenues of around $300 million, with Darin Billerbeck as the chief executive officer...
.
The alliance is not a standards body, but claims it will deliver proven solutions in the form of complete system designs. It is headquartered in the Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
area of California. There is an annual fee to become a member of the Road to 100G Alliance.
Although 100G is generally viewed in terms of Ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....
(and sometimes referred to as 100GE or 100GbE), the Road to 100G Alliance plans to address non-Ethernet applications such as OTU-3/40G and soon to be developed OTU-4/100G applications as well.