The Rate Debate Presentations

• Welcome – John D’Ambrosia, Ethernet Alliance Chairman (Dell)

Session 1: Data Center Speeds – All Presentations

• Ethernet Alliance Roadmap Intro – Scott Kipp, Ethernet Alliance President (Brocade)
• Speeds in Data Center – Alan Weckel, Dell’Oro Group
• Server Diversity: Why One Speed is No Longer Enough – Dave Chalupksy, Intel
• Implications of the Next Signaling Rate on Ethernet Speeds – Kapil Shrikhande, Dell
• Lane Rates – Rob Stone

Session 2: 50Gb/s and Beyond – All Presentations

• Faster – 56Gb/s Standardization Efforts at the OIF – Nathan Tracy, OIF (TE Connectivity) & David Stauffer, OIF (Kandou Bus)
• 100Gb/s Single Lambda Optics – Why? – Gary Nicholl, Cisco
• 50Gb/s: The Next Unifying Per Lane Rate – Chris Cole, Finisar

Guest Speakers:

• Guest Speaker – Gavin Cato, Dell
• Guest Speaker – Thomas Scheibe, Cisco

Panel 1: BASE-T Ethernet: 1G/10G, 40G Coming Soon, Are 2.5G and 25G Coming Too? All Presentations – Moderator: Dave Chalupsky, Intel

• Higher Speeds for Enterprise BASE-T Access – Sandeep Shyamsukha, Cisco
• BASE-T & The Rate Debate – George Zimmerman, CME Consulting
• End-User Consultant Perspective on 25GBase-T – Jonathan Jew, J&M Consultants
• 2.5G and 5G Rates for Enterprise Networks – Kamal Dalmia, Aquantia

Panel 2: Flexible Ethernet Rates for Router to Transport – All Presentations– Moderator: Stephen Trowbridge, Alcatel-Lucent

• Use Cases – Vijay Vusirikala, Google
• Flexible Interfaces in Transport Networks – Stephen Trowbridge, Alcatel-Lucent
• FlexEthernet – A Systems View – David Ofelt, Juniper
• FlexEthernet – Protocols & Components Mark Gustlin, Xilinx