The next generation of Ethernet data transmission speed 1000 times times faster

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has built a new research centre that could turn this idea into reality, according to a network of American physicists, which will work with the university's Gigabit Optical Ethernet Research Center (TOEC) to develop the technologies necessary for the next generation of Ethernet. Compared with today's most advanced networks, the next generation of Ethernet data transmission speed 1000 times times faster, and more efficient. The researchers hope to develop a 1 Gigabit Ethernet (1000G per second transmission) in 2015 and transmit data through fiber optics, with the ultimate goal of developing 100 Gigabit Ethernet in 2020.

Imagine, in the future, if all the data could just pass a fiber as wide as the hair, it would be very exciting to cross the entire world with the speed of 1000G (megabyte) bytes per second, across a long network, across a single computer and hardware.

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has built a new research centre that can turn this idea into reality, and the research center will work with the university's Gigabit Optical Ethernet Research Center (TOEC) to develop the technologies necessary for the next generation of Ethernet, according to the US physicist organization network October 21. Compared with today's most advanced networks, the next generation of Ethernet data transmission speed 1000 times times faster, and more efficient. The researchers hope to develop a 1 Gigabit Ethernet (1000G per second transmission) in 2015 and transmit data through fiber optics, with the ultimate goal of developing 100 Gigabit Ethernet in 2020.

Google, Verizon Communications, Intel Corporation, Agilent Technology Limited and Rockwell Collins International have also joined the research project.

Network congestion occurs

Now, industrial enterprises and organizations need to deal with a large amount of data every day, consumers will browse countless videos, share high-definition pictures, play online games, and so on, every day, millions of people consume billions of bytes of data at the same time, the rapid increase in data traffic makes the network congestion occurs.

UCSB, director of Electronics and Computer Engineering and TOEC, Daniel Brumenthaler, says faster Ethernet can solve the problem of Internet data congestion and support large-scale applications such as cloud computing.

Stutt Alby, the Verizon Vice-President for network architecture, says TOEC's ongoing research and development efforts will make the future of the internet possible.

Ethernet is a network of computer LAN technology, it has become a standard of data transmission, widely used in a small range of data transmission and global data transmission. "Ethernet is a widely accepted and flexible interface," said David Fabre, an Internet engineer and professor at Carnegie Mellon University who served as chief technology Officer of the Federal Communications Commission.

Although Ethernet is growing, some experts estimate that with the rapid development of video, cloud computing and distributed data storage, the speed of data transmission and the requirement of network bandwidth are more and more high, and the development speed of Ethernet can not meet the above requirements in less than 5 years.

Developing energy-saving technology is the key

Farber says that, based on the ongoing reality of network congestion, it is clear that in the near future we will need Gigabit Ethernet. Farber believes that Gigabit Ethernet not only meets the needs of the data transmission speed and bandwidth of the Internet, but also high performance, high speed Ethernet can create a lot of opportunities we do not think of today, "as long as you build a Gigabit Ethernet, these opportunities will come uninvited."

The current Ethernet technology does not allow the data to transmit faster than 100G per second, mainly because there is not so much energy to provide power and cooling to the network system that provides the speed of this data transmission. Large data centers may consume as much energy as the same small city, so a new generation of Ethernet requires energy efficiency and higher cost, otherwise, the energy shortage problem will limit the development of Ethernet.

Brumenthaler stressed that their goal is to develop energy-saving technology, so that applications and basic networks continue to scale, save energy and cost. They call it the future green network, and the entire Ethernet system will depend on those networks.

To do this, and drive Ethernet forward to 100 megabytes per second of data transmission, the researchers need to make some major breakthroughs in the basic technology field, Brumenthaler said: "We need to make great efforts in a number of areas, we will not only in the core Ethernet technology to achieve breakthroughs, And a major breakthrough is needed in the area of Ethernet based networking and engineering and measurement systems for developing and testing these new technologies. ”

TOEC's research will integrate UCSB in the fields of materials science, advanced electronics, photonic Integrated circuit technology, silicon-based optoelectronics, high speed integrated photon and electronic circuits, and the "bridging" of these new technologies with real-time networking systems. Brumenthaler says the new low-cost, high-energy-efficient photon technology will be the basis for future Ethernet.

Mario Pan, director and special researcher at the Intel Photoelectron Technology Laboratory, said: "We will use silicon-based optoelectronics to create low-cost, integrated, transmission-gigabit devices that are well suited to the energy-efficient Ethernet that TOEC is developing." ”

The complexity of the future high speed Gigabit Ethernet system presents a new challenge to the evaluation device, a key area that needs to be done in conjunction with device and system development, paving the way for the development of Gigabit Ethernet, said Gees Bani, senior research manager at Jie LUN Technology Co., Ltd.