Overview of IEEE Interim Meeting

The IEEE 802.3 interim meeting was held at Knoxville, TN from September 18-21 2006. The High Speed Ethernet (100 Gbps) study group met for the first time. Presentations made at the study group meeting are available here. The newly constituted task force for 10 Gig Ethernet PON (IEEE 802.av) also met for the first time. Presentations made at this task force meeting are available here. The summary of the meeting is available here. The main directions in which this task group will concentrate its efforts are on having higher split ratios (e.g.,64 or 128), wavelength assignment for different channels, and power budget issues.