KeyEye Communications, Inc. has announced its support for the direction-setting votes taken last week at the meeting of the IEEE 802.3an Task Force, which is developing the industry standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet over twisted-pair copper cabling.
The task force made significant progress in its work on the 10GB-T standard, selecting several requirements for standards-compliant communications. One of the task force's requirements specified the use of a forward error correction technique known as low-density parity check (LDPC), rather than a competing scheme that relied on trellis coding. Another requirement specified was the use of Tomlinson-Harashima precoding.
"I was pleased both to be able to offer my extensive scientific findings regarding LDPC to the IEEE standards task force and with their subsequent selection of this technique to optimize communication performance in 10 Gbits/sec links," says Shu Lin, professor at the University of California, Davis.
"KeyEye has been a staunch advocate of the IEEE standards-setting process, and we are pleased that the process has again yielded the best-possible technical solution to the challenge being addressed," says Harvey Scull, president of KeyEye Communications. "KeyEye has been developing technology for the past two years and soon plans to deliver an entire family of low-cost 10 Gbits/sec copper transceivers, including 10GB-T compliant products."
The 802.3an Task Force was officially created with the approval of the 802.3 Working Group in November of 2003. KeyEye has been an active contributor to the Task Force. The final 10GB-T standard is expected to be approved by the IEEE in the summer of 2006.
KeyEye Communications is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets high-performance multi-gigabit transceivers for interconnections between and within networking, computing, and storage equipment. KeyEye Communications is based in Sacramento, CA. For more information visit www.keyeye.net.
