Fortunately the two groups came together in the IEEE, and there are no competing standards.
IEEE P802.3bz 2.5/5GBASE-T Task Force stared in March 2015: - 2.5GBASE-T: 4 x 625 Mb/s over 100 m Cat 5e (Class D) or Cat 6 (Class E) unshielded twisted-pair copper cabling - 5GBASE-T: 4 x 1.250 Gb/s over 100 m Cat 5e (Class D) or Cat 6 (Class E) unshielded twisted-pair copper cabling - MultiGBASE-T auto-negotiation between 2.5GBASE-T, 5GBASE-T, 10GBASE-T, 25GBASE-T, 40GBASE-T - Automatic MDI/MDI-X configuration - PoE support including IEEE 802.3bt amendment (power over 4 pairs) - Optional Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) support - Standard expected in September 2016 - Interfaces expected on the market in 2016 - Task Force web page http://www.ieee802.org/3/bz/ You might have seen my Ethernet speeds presentation... the most recent one is here: http://ix.br/pttforum/9/slides/ixbr9-ethernet.pdf (December 2015) It's slightly out of date as the IEEE Interim was just last week. Greg -- Greg Hankins <ghank...@mindspring.com> -----Original Message----- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 21:45:27 +0000 From: a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk To: Justin Krejci <jkre...@usinternet.com> Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: Equipment Supporting 2.5gbps and 5gbps Hi, > I've a couple 10 port Cisco switches that support 2.5 and 5gbps over cat5e, > just wondering if there are any other vendors out there with offerings that > support these newer ethernet speeds. Supporting cat5e for these multi-gig > speeds is a real boon in many circumstances given the wide popularity of it > in many buildings. > > Does anyone have any experience with or knowledge of other products, switches > in particular, supporting 2.5 and 5 gbps? well, until the standard is ratified, these Multi-Gig offerings are quite proprietary.. there are 2 competing camps....hopefully they will be compatible and not end up like beta/vhs once the dust settles camp 1 - http://www.nbaset.org/ camp 2 - http://www.mgbasetalliance.org/ look at those vendors..... I think they hope by avoiding IEEE int he early stages and taping silicon they'll get the job done quicker - the drive mainly being faster wireless APs and cheaper data centre interconnects... alan
