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supporting faster speeds without
requiring a costly cable upgrade, which
could run hundreds of thousands of
dollars for a campus-wide retrofit. Aside
from the installation costs, wholesale
replacement – if even possible – also
requires time, and invasive disruption
to the day-to-day operations of any
enterprise building,” says David.
The IEEE 802.3bz specifications
for 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T
are compatible with the NBASE-T
specification. Products based upon
NBASE-T have been in the market
for over a year, so there is a range of
compatible products already shipping.
“The compatibility and
interoperability of these two
specifications were demonstrated in
October 2016 at the BASE-T Plugfest
co-sponsored by the Ethernet Alliance
and the NBASE-T Alliance.”
Perhaps counterintuitively, one of the
key applications the standard will benefit
is wireless internet. The development
of fast WiFi protocols has given rise to
a significant demand for cheap uplinks
faster than the current 1Gbps.
One immediate application area
is wireless LAN access points based
upon IEEE 802.11ac Wave2, which can
require uplink bandwidth into the
wired LAN well over 1Gbps per access
point. An important attribute of using
BASE-T networking over twisted pair
category cabling is that the same cable
can be used to deliver power to the
device using PoE and wireless LAN
access points commonly make use of
this capability.
“Additional applications include any
area which requires higher network
bandwidth than 1Gbps over up to 100
metres of cabling. Medical imaging,
scientific/research computing,
content editing, industrial design and
machine vision just to list a few. This
technology allows suppliers to right
size the network bandwidth for the
capabilities of the network end device
(e.g., IEEE 802.11 WAP, host NIC, etc.),
and network providers to leverage the
installed cabling assets to serve new
need,” says David.
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