Communications
Whitepaper: 100 Gigabit Ethernet Drivers and Technology
The world is currently experiencing a dramatic escalation in the demands placed upon its global data communications infrastructure. The increase is driven predominately by a shift from text only traffic with modest bandwidth requirements to full multimedia content with bandwidth requirements orders of magnitude more.
To accommodate the ever increasing demand for bandwidth, communication links have evolved from copper based channels running in the MB/s range to fiber optic based links running in excess of 10 Gb/s. In modern data centers for example, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GBE) ports are commonly used as uplinks for 24- and 48-port 1 GBE switches.