Towards a Transponder for Serial 100 Gigabit Ethernet Using a Novel Optical SERDES

Video, data-center and mobile backhaul traffic promises to dominate much of metro traffic in the near future causing speculation for bandwidth exhaustion in the C-band. This has led to motivations for 100 Gbps per wavelength proposals especially in the Ethernet space. The 100 Gbps Ethernet (GE) proposals are currently being standardized under the IEEE802.3ba working group. The working group's current primary concern is focused on adapting 100 GE interfaces in some plausible form for server blades in data centers for both intra-data-center as well as inter-data center connectivity.