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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (9940)	12/26/2000 1:11:58 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

I thought all the 1Gb options were signed, sealed, and delivered, and subsumed into the latest rev of 802.3 (and all its 1552 pages of glory!).[All those that were on the table to date, anyways] Once this happens, I think the 802-dot-3-followed-by-lower-case-letter(s) (e.g. z, ab) cease to exist officially (PeterE?). From that point forward, I think the correct and complete way to reference them is via their 10Base designation. [late edit: I replied too quickly and your post now reads 802.3ae, so this reply is somewhat misdirected because of that]

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (9940)	12/26/2000 11:29:11 PM
From: ftth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

Another "modality exploration" that will probably enter the standards fray at some point is this next-generation polymer optical fiber. Though they still have much room for improvement to reach theoretical performance, 11Gbps @ 100m using inexpensive laser diodes @ 1300nm is nothing to sneeze at (and is a monumental improvement over the performance from 10 years ago). Here's a link to a fairly recent paper on plastic and polymer optical fibers. If you skip the few sections where it breaks into theoretical equations, there are some interesting historical discussions and future potential discussions (and some surprising theoretical results in comparison to silica base fibers) that are very readable. search.ieice.or.jp There was also a group at Washington State working on single-mode polymer optical fiber, but I haven't seen anything new out of them in some time.