IEEE 802.3 400 Gb/s/Lane Signaling Study Group

September 2026 Interim Meeting




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Administration




Agenda and General Information
13 Sept 2026
Kent Lusted
Synopsys
Unapproved Minutes

Beth Kochuparambil
Kent Lusted
Cisco
Synopsys
Straw Polls and Motions
18 Sept 2026
Beth Kochuparambil
Kent Lusted
Cisco
Synopsys








Liaisons and Communications












Technical Contributions




Nomenclature: An Ethernet Naming Adventure
10 Sept 2026
Kent Lusted
Synopsys
Scaling the Rack: Electrical Interconnect for Hyperscaler Compute Demands
17 Sept 2026
Halil Cirit
Meta Platforms
Chip to Module and Optics Objectives
16 Sept 2026 Ali Ghiasi
Chris Cole
Karl Muth
Mike Dudek
Ghiasi Quantum / Marvell
Coherent
Broadcom
Marvell
Continuing discussion on interfaces necessary for NPO architecture in EEE802.3dv
10 Sept 2026 Guangcan Mi
Xiang He
Huawei
Huawei
400G/800G/1.6T Logic Architecture Considerations
13 Sept 2026
Gary Nicholl
Eugene Opsasnick
Matt Brown
Xiang He
Shawn Nicholl
Adee Ran
Cisco
Broadcom
Qualcomm
Huawei
AMD
Cisco
Extended link training protocol
11 Sept 2026
Leon Bruckman
Piers Dawe
Adee Ran
Vasudevan Parthasarathy
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
Cisco
Broadcom
Maintenance channel for 400GPL
10 Sept 2026 Adee Ran
Cisco
Pre-Baseline Discussion for 400GPL Single Wavelength Objectives 10 Sept 2026 Brian Welch
Ali Ghiasi
Vasu Parthasarathy
Ahmad El-Chayeb
Mike Dudek
Roberto Rodes
Karl Muth
Cisco
Ghiasi Quantum
Broadcom
Keysight
Marvell
Coherent
Broadcom
Further consideration on modulation formats of 400Gbps per lane optical signal
16 Sept 2026 Yu Xu
Li Xu
Ping Liao
Huawei
Huawei
Huawei
A Salz-Inspired Implementation Margin Estimate Aiding 400 Gb/s/Lane Channel Objective and Baseline Refinement
16 Sept 2026 Richard Mellitz
Brandon Gore
Adam Gregory
Tim Wig
Samtec
Samtec
Samtec
Samtec
Package Considerations for 400GPL BGA-Side Feasibility Studies
10 Sept 2026 Toshiaki Sakai
Futoshi Terasawa
Masaki Fujioka
Socionext
Socionext
Socionext
Industry Need for Higher Capacity MDI Connectors
16 Sept 2026 John D'Ambrosia
Sam Kocsis
Futurewei, U.S. Subsidiary of Huawei
Amphenol
Path Forward for Developing IEEE 802.3 400GPL C2M/CR Specifications
11 Sept 2026
Mike Li
Ed Frlan
AMD
Semtech
Modulation wars: How to steer through uncertainty
17 Sept 2026
Adee Ran
Cisco
Architecture and Methodology Considerations for Developing IEEE 802.3 400GPL C2M/CR PAM4/PAM6 Specifications
10 Sept 2026 Mike Li
Ed Frlan
AMD
Semtech
Modulation and FEC scheme for 400G/lane AUI-C2M
10 Sept 2026 Xiang He
Shuangxing Dai
Tong Mu
Yuhao Qi
Yuefeng Wu
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Modulation and FEC scheme for 400G/lane CR objectives
15 Sept 2026 Xiang He
Xuebo Wang
Hao Ren
Congshi Zou
Liyang Zhou
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies
Inclusion of CPO channels in the 400G/lane Optical Specifications
15 Sept 2026
Vishnu Balan
Leon Bruckman
Bill Simms
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
Towards a Backplane (KR) Objective for 400GPL Study Group
16 Sept 2026
Nathan Tracy
Howard Heck
Marva Dar
Tina Bao
TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity
TE Connectivity














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