


“Looking at 2017, we have raised our forecast as we predict NBASE-T port shipments will proliferate, eclipsing 5 M ports, as merchant silicon-based switches come to market. Both go hand-in-hand to reduce frustration of mobile users in the Enterprise,” said Tam Dell’Oro, President of Dell’Oro Group. The confluence of widespread availability of NBASE-T Ethernet switches are now matching the widespread availability of 802.11ac Wave 2 Wireless LAN products. More recently, the Dell’Oro Group wrote of NBASE-T: “Despite the limited availability of products, market shipments of NBASE-T in the second half of 2016 surged “We interpret these results as a reflection that Enterprise users are hungry for multi-gigabit bandwidth to support the traffic from their wireless devices. Enterprise, small medium business, industrial and home networks can take advantage of this technology to enable higher capacity wireless access points and faster downloads to client systems such as medical imaging systems that work with large data files, upgraded industrial and home networks,” the NBASE-T Alliance wrote of the ratification. “The applications for NBASE-T solutions are vast and growing. +More on Network World: IEEE sets new Ethernet standard that brings 5X the speed without disruptive cable changes+ In September the IEEE ratified the speedier Ethernet specification - IEEE P802.3bz – that defines 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T, boosting the current top speed of traditional Ethernet five-times without requiring the tearing out of current cabling. To learn more please visit the Keysight /UNH presentation at DesignCon.The need for such testing is growing as customers begin rolling out new 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T products. Channel characterization including: common impedance differential mode (CIDM), propagation delay, insertion loss, return loss, longitudinal conversation loss (LCL), and longitudinal conversation transfer loss (LCTL).Physical Medium Attachment (PMA) testing including: output droop, timing jitter, clock frequency and power spectral density.

It will also briefly discuss emerging standards such as 1000BASE-T1 IEEE 802.3bp and future variants being defined in IEEE 802.3ch and IEEE 802.3cg. This includes current standards such as 100BASE-T1 IEEE 802.3bw, and OABR 3.2. This paper introduces the testing methodologies for Automotive Ethernet. For this reason, Keysight Technologies and UNH-IOL have partnered to co-author a paper that will be at upcoming industry events.Ĭar manufacturers, OEMs, and chipset vendors are looking to Automotive Ethernet as a next generation communication bus. The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is industry-recognized worldwide for Ethernet compliance testing.
