I always thought that three level coding was called trinary; what does dou-binary do that trinary didn't? John Willkie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 2:34 PM Subject: [opendtv] 100 Gb/s Ethernet over AM fiber > Awright! So far, they are only talking about 3-AM > over fiber. Can 64-QAM or 8-VSB be far behind? > > Note that another approach is to use fancy > equalizers to achieve the same bit rate with less > efficient NRZ signaling. Next step: fancy equalizer > *and* 8-VSB. > > Ain't this stuff great? Whoever said that high > tech equalizers aren't necessary. > > Bert > > -------------------------------------- > Bell Labs discloses 100-G Ethernet over optical > > Loring Wirbel > (09/29/2005 3:57 PM EDT) > URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D171201839 > > COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Lucent Bell Labs presented > two papers at the European Conference on Optical > Communication detailing work on optical transmission > using the emerging 100-Gbit Ethernet standard. While > Ethernet framing has been used in 40-Gbit Sonet > backbones, and the IEEE has discussed a 100-Gbit > follow-on, the work described at the conference in > Glasgow, Scotland, is the first to allow 100-Gbit > transmission over optical fiber. > > The first paper covers duobinary optical modulation, > a technique that forms the basis of a new multisource > agreement on transponders. In the methodology, three > electrical signal levels are used to represent a > traditional binary signal, allowing a transmission to > require less bandwidth than nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) > coding. Bell Labs employees used a 40-Gbit optical > modulator with duo-binary to achieve a 107-Gbit/s > serial data stream. > > The second paper described a single-chip optical > equalizer that compensates for all intersymbol > interference encountered in a 107-Gbit NRZ electronic > time-division multiplexing transmitter. As with the > duo-binary device, the equalizer allowed the use of a > commercial 40-Gbit modulator to general a 107-Gbit > optical NRZ signal. > > All material on this site Copyright 2005 CMP Media LLC. > All rights reserved. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.