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IEEE Amends 802.3bm Ethernet Standard

IEEE said a new amendment to its 802.3bm standard for ethernet supports recent advances in optical networking, “enabling migration to higher-density applications, reducing cost and power demand” of 100 Gbps devices and simplified metropolitan services. “Significantly higher Ethernet performance, capacity…

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and reach in optical networking are needed especially inside and among data centers across metropolitan areas, given the ongoing proliferation of smartphones, video-on-demand, cloud computing and other bandwidth-intensive applications such as the Internet of Things,” said Dan Dove, chairman of the IEEE 802.3bm Task Force, in a Wednesday news release.