The official
IEEE designation for a family of standards describing 10Gigabit (10 billion bits per second) Ethernet interconnections.
The standard is split into 7 different interfaces (why are standards boards under so much pressure to embrace unnecessary complexity these days?). Here is the breakdown:
|
Interface
|
Type
|
PMD(in nm)
|
PHY
|
type/dia
(microns)
|
Range
(meters)
|
|
10GBase-SR
|
Serial
|
850
|
LAN
|
Multi/50
|
65
|
|
10GBase-LR
|
Serial
|
1,310
|
LAN
|
Single/9
|
10,000
|
|
10GBase-ER
|
Serial
|
1,550
|
LAN
|
Single/9
|
40,000
|
|
10GBase-LX4
|
WWDM
|
1,310
|
LAN
|
Single/9
multi/62.5
|
10,000
300
|
|
10GBase-SW
|
Serial
|
850
|
WAN
|
Multi/50
Multi/62.5
|
65
26
|
|
10GBase-LW
|
Serial
|
1,310
|
WAN
|
Single/9
|
10,000
|
|
10GBase-EW
|
Serial
|
1,550
|
WAN
|
Single/9
|
40,000
|
