Ethernet Innovation Drives Ethernet Alliance’s ECOC 2024 Demo
Popular, interactive yearly demo offers a deep dive into future-ready Ethernet technologies
BEAVERTON, OR, Sep 10, 2024 – The Ethernet Alliance, a global consortium dedicated to the continued success and advancement of Ethernet technologies, today announced details of its exhibit at stand #A3 during the 2024 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC). Europe’s leading optical communications conference is set to take place September 22-26, 2024, at Messe Frankfurt, Germany.
The Ethernet Alliance’s highly anticipated multivendor interoperability demonstration will showcase an impressive range of Ethernet technologies, spanning from 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) to 800GbE. The display includes best-in-class switches, routers, and interconnect solutions including OSFP, QSFP-DD, and QSFP, along with SFP pluggable form factors, traffic generators, and sophisticated test and measurement solutions, interoperating in a live real-world network setting. The installation illustrates Ethernet’s ability to enable everything from everyday network traffic to high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI) use cases.
“Ethernet continues to be the foundational technology for the whole of the Internet due to its unmatched functionality, scalability, price, and performance,” said Peter Jones, chair, Ethernet Alliance. “The industry is facilitating new technologies like Generative AI by harnessing its core strengths of innovation and dependability, ensuring fit-for-purpose solutions that hold true to Ethernet’s value promise.”
The Ethernet Alliance’s 2024 ECOC presence is anchored by a cross-section of industry-leading technology innovators, each representing a key segment of the Ethernet ecosystem. Participating member companies include AMD (NASDAQ:AMD); Amphenol Corporation (NYSE:APH); Hyper Photonix Ltd.; Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR); Keysight Technologies Inc. (NYSE:KEYS); MultiLane, Inc.; Teledyne LeCroy Inc. (NYSE:TDY); Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNPS); and VeEX, Inc.
Beyond demonstrating Ethernet’s versatility, the interoperability exhibit also highlights its diverse capabilities, including high-speed Ethernet and Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO). These technologies show how Ethernet networks are enhanced by expanding reach and capacity — FlexE and HSE enable high-speed optical connections and comprehensive physical layer integration, while LPO ensures compatibility with Ethernet standards and protocols.
To learn more about ECOC 2024, visit https://www.ecoc2024.org. For additional information about the Ethernet Alliance, visit https://bit.ly/EA-ECOC2024, follow @EthernetAllianc on X, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
The Ethernet Alliance is a global consortium that includes system and component vendors, and industry experts who are committed to the continued success and expansion of Ethernet technology. The Ethernet Alliance takes Ethernet standards to market by supporting activities that span from incubation of new Ethernet technologies to interoperability demonstrations and education. The organization’s plans may be found on the Events page of its website.
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Member Comments:
“The explosive growth of AI-enabled applications and connected devices across the data center, cloud and edge underscore the critical role the Ethernet Alliance global consortium plays in driving the continued expansion and evolution of Ethernet technology. Multivendor interoperability is key and at ECOC 2024, AMD will demonstrate 800G Ethernet interoperability using AMD Versal® Premium adaptive SoC silicon and IP as a crucial step in meeting the higher processing demands of AI and edge computing workloads.” – Harpinder Matharu, senior director, Wired and Wireless Communications, AMD
“The Ethernet Alliance booth at ECOC 2024 demonstrates a live Ethernet ecosystem showcasing the latest Ethernet products generally available in the market today. Amphenol, a world class interconnect provider is proud to supply Optics, LPO’s, AOC’s and award-winning DACs as part of the interconnect solution for this Ethernet Alliance interoperability demo. Please stop by the Ethernet Alliance booth to see all that Ethernet has to offer.” – Chris Lyon, cloud business development manager, Amphenol CS, and president, Ethernet Alliance
“Hyper Photonix is pleased to participate in the Ethernet Alliance demo at the ECOC 2024 exhibition in Frankfurt. As in previous years, this is a great opportunity for Hyper Photonix to showcase its range of 400G and 800G Hyper Silicon™ Photonics transceivers, including LPO technology, in an industry-wide live demonstration that highlights interoperability across various module manufacturers, host switching platforms, and test equipment solutions. Our company is at the forefront of optical networking technology, and we’re continuously developing innovative Hyper Silicon Photonics-based to support higher bit rates and lower power consumption in the most demanding AI/ML applications, now and in the future.” – Xavier Clairardin, CEO, Hyper Photonix
“Juniper Networks, a longstanding and active member of the Ethernet Alliance (EA), prioritizes multi-vendor collaborations that drive meaningful, standards-based innovations to market. At OFC’24, Juniper and members of the EA community collaborated to highlight the dependable and unrelenting evolution of Ethernet-based technologies through a variety of multi-vendor interoperability demos that ranged from 10GbE to 800GbE, and now we look forward to bringing these compelling demonstrations to ECOC’24. In addition to showcasing complete 400GbE and 800GbE solutions, we are also excited to showcase coherent 100G-ZR which will transform how WAN transport architectures are designed. Juniper supports these leading-edge technologies across our portfolios enabling customers globally to realize the benefits across a myriad of WAN (IPoDWDM), cloud and AI/ML use cases.” – Dwayne McIntosh, Director of Product Marketing, Juniper Networks
“Keysight is proud to be an active member participating in the Ethernet Alliance’s interoperability event at ECOC 2024, showcasing our industry leading platforms, AresONE 800GE-OSFP-800-M and AresONE 800GE QSFP-DD800-M, while validating Ethernet network speeds from 10GE to 800GE. We are pleased to support a wide variety of AI interconnect, including passive and active cabling technologies, coherent and short reach optics, and linear drive pluggable optics (LPO). Keysight’s Layer 1-3 traffic generators are commonly used in the context of AI interconnect to simulate and generate network traffic that help test the performance, scalability, and reliability of AI systems and their interconnections.” – Ram Periakaruppan, vice president and general manager, Network Test and Security Solutions, Keysight
“We are excited to be part of the Ethernet Alliance demo for ECOC 2024. MultiLane is continuing our commitment to ensuring a diverse ecosystem joining other key contributors with solutions that enable interoperability across the industry.” – Hani Daou, Business Development Manager, MultiLane
“To meet the growing processing demands of AI workloads, hyperscale data centers must transfer increasing amounts of data quickly and reliably. Standard interfaces like Ethernet are essential to achieving the ecosystem interoperability, high-bandwidth, and low latency requirements of these systems. As an active member of the Ethernet Alliance, Synopsys provides the industry with a complete and high-quality 1.6T/800G Ethernet IP solution that enables designers to accelerate their first-pass silicon success for the world’s fastest chips.” – Mick Posner, vice president of IP product management, Synopsys
“Teledyne LeCroy is proud to once again be part of the Ethernet Alliance stand at ECOC 2024, helping to demonstrate the enduring value of Ethernet. With the 112G SerDes PAM4 standard now mainstream and its successor, the new 1.6Tbps 224G SerDes, currently being formulated, Teledyne LeCroy is committed to providing affordable traffic generation, network emulation and protocol analyzer test solutions to ensure the reliable performance and ubiquitous interoperability that is Ethernet’s hallmark. At ECOC 2024, we will help demonstrate solutions to the challenges customers struggle with including the advanced congestion control needed for demanding AI infrastructure/applications; FEC error injection and Signal Integrity View (SIV) for verifying Layer 1 capabilities and performance; and in-depth analysis of Auto-Negotiation and Link Training (AN/LT).” – Nick Kriczky, VP of Products and Storage, Teledyne LeCroy
“VeEX is honored to partner with the Ethernet Alliance at this year’s ECOC. As a global leader in network testing, we understand the vital role of multi-vendor interoperability in driving successful adoption and deployment of next generation equipment and services. Together with the Ethernet Alliance and its partners, VeEX will showcase our latest 800GE portfolio, including the new MPA-HD rack mount platform with multiport 800GE and RXT-6802 dual 800G/400G multi-service handheld test set for lab to field applications.” – Keith Cole, VP product marketing NEMs, VeEX
