Copper at core of 10-Gb Ether debate

摘要

San Mated, Calif. - Top communications experts will debate how best to bring 10-Gbit Ethernet to copper cabling at an IEEE meeting next month in Hawaii. Their efforts will serve as an important step in smoothing the evolution of tomorrow's business networks. Industryplayers see the problem of how to run 10-Gbit/s Ethernet 100 meters over today's aging Category 5 unshielded twisted-pair cabling as one of the grand challenges of communications design. Indeed, many engineers say it can't be done.