I believe "ternary" is the term used to describe three-level coding. Al Limberg ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 8:09 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: 100 Gb/s Ethernet over AM fiber > 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. > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.