Backplane Ethernet
call for interest

The following request for agenda time for a "call for interest" has been received from Bob Grow. It will be made during the IEEE 802 LMSC November 2003 Plenary meeting in Albuquerque, NM, USA. If you have any questions please get in touch with Bob Grow directly.

The relentless progress in silicon technology enables greater concentration of functionality in smaller spaces. What previously was an equipment rack filled with multiple chassis is with increasing frequency being collapsed into a single chassis. This is occurring in both telecommunications and data processing. Ethernet should be the ubiquitous interface for interconnection of equipment whether distributed over large geographic areas, within an enterprise, within a data center, or between blades across a backplane. IEEE 802.3 is currently addressing all of these interconnections except that over a backplane. Without an 802.3 standard, the number of incompatible standards and proprietary interfaces will multiply. An 802.3 standard for backplane Ethernet will be applicable to blade servers, telecommunications equipment and many other functions that will be collapsed into a single chassis.

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