Tuesday, December 15, 2009

IEEE starts work on new EPON spec

Ethernet switch cheat sheet; Verizon Business lights up 100G backbone in Europe
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IEEE starts work on new EPON spec

The IEEE has begun work on a standard for linking EPON services at a system level, in the hopes of achieving plug-and-play interoperability for this rapidly growing technology. Read full story

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