Re: [STDS-802-3-400G] 400G nomenclature survey
The proposals thus far replace Roman numerals with a combination of "Arabic" numerals + abbreviated Greek prefixes. Some people say "GIG" as in 400"GIG" as opposed to 400 "GEE" to express "Gigabits per second" -- maybe this is an additional reason for choosing only one hyphen, as in 400GAUI-8, and pronouncing it "FOUR-HUNDRED-GA-WEE-EIGHT."
Regards,
Brian Teipen
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From: Ali, Hassan [mailto:hali@xxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 3:36 PM
To: STDS-802-3-400G@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-3-400G] 400G nomenclature survey
It was OK to pronounce "CAUI-4" as "KA-WEE-FOUR" or "CDAUI-8" as "SI-DA-WEE-EIGHT" . I think it should be OK to pronounce "400GAUI-8" as "FOUR-HUNDRED-GA-WEE-EIGHT" (rather than "FOUR-HUNDRED-GEE-A-WEE-EIGHT"?
Regardless of how we pronounce it, I prefer 400GAUI-8 since that only changes the "Roman" to "Arabic" numerals and keeps the "dash" where it currently is.
Best regards,
Hassan.
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From: Mike Dudek [mailto:mike.dudek@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 1:21 PM
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Subject: Re: [STDS-802-3-400G] 400G nomenclature survey
I agree. However I'd prefer it to be 400G-AUI8 as that matches better how we would pronounce it.
Mike Dudek
QLogic Corporation
Director Signal Integrity
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Aliso Viejo CA 92656
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From: Andy Moorwood [mailto:amoorwood@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 9:28 PM
To: STDS-802-3-400G@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-3-400G] 400G nomenclature survey
Zhongfeng,
Good point, this would serve us well for a while, should we have the goal to complete the transition by July ?
Best Regards
Andy
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From: Zhongfeng Wang [mailto:zfwang@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 1:38 PM
To: STDS-802-3-400G@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-3-400G] 400G nomenclature survey
Jeff,
During the transition period of naming convention, we may have a statement like
"400GAUI-8 (a.k.a. CDAUI-8)" in early beginning of the spec to avoid confusion.
--- Zhongfeng
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From: Jeffery Maki [mailto:jmaki@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 12:00 PM
To: STDS-802-3-400G@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-3-400G] 400G nomenclature survey
All,
It is a bit late to make a change in terms of messaging to the industry as a whole. Be prepared for people to ask what the difference is between CDAUI-8 and 400G-AUI-8 if we do adopt the change? We are in danger of too many hyphens.
Eye test:
400G-AUI-8
400GAUI-8
400G-AUI8
400GAUI8
Jeff
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From: Lusted, Kent C [mailto:kent.c.lusted@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 11:17 AM
To: STDS-802-3-400G@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-3-400G] 400G nomenclature survey
Dear Colleagues,
The survey closed at 10 pm Eastern time, Sunday, 1 March. A total of 65
people voted online.
The results of the survey are as follows:
YES (i.e. change it to 400G-XS, 400G-MII-, 400G-AUI-n) 80.00% 52
NO (i.e. keep it as CD-XS, CDGMII, CDAUI-n) 18.46% 12 no preference 1.54%
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With regards,
-Kent
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From: Lusted, Kent C [mailto:kent.c.lusted@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 12:30 PM
To: STDS-802-3-400G@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [STDS-802-3-400G] 400G nomenclature survey
Dear Colleagues,
As many of you may already know, the P802.3by Task Force adopted "25G"
Arabic numerals in place of Roman numerals for the AUI and MII interface designations. During the January interim meeting of P802.3bs 400G, several people asked me offline about extending the Arabic numerals into the P802.3bs Task Force
In an attempt to minimize the impact to our valuable March Plenary meeting time, I prepared an online poll. The purpose of the poll is to determine if there is consensus to change the adopted nomenclature in P802.3bs from Roman numerals to Arabic numerals for the XS, MII and AUI-n interfaces.
The results from the survey will be presented in the TF meeting during a short nomenclature presentation. Hopefully, the online poll will save the valuable Task Force discussion time to address more pressing topics related to the big ticket items.
The survey link is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8HZCMQB
The close time for the survey is 10 pm Eastern time, Sunday, 1 March to ensure the data is available in a timely manner for the Task Force meeting.
Thank you for your participation and I look forward to seeing you in Berlin!
With regards,
-Kent