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100GB Ethernet team 'working together'

An optical networking firm is joining forces with a group of university and enterprise partners to develop a 100GB metropolitan Ethernet transport network, it has been reported.

The metro-focused group will be headed by ADVA, and is one of four in the 100GET (100 Gigabit Ethernet Transport) initiative, according to TechWeb's Light Reading.

Hans-Joachim Grallert, managing director of Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin and professor at the Technical University of Berlin, told the website the firm's market experience with the challenges and requirements of Metro Ethernet is invaluable to the group.

"Collaborative research and grid computing in the research-and-education community is creating the first demands for 100GB per second, but any projection of metro bandwidth need shows that this unprecedented level of bandwidth is obviously on the horizon," he added.

Mr Grallert concluded that the project is proactively addressing the reality of bringing together the optical-networking community's leaders to develop new technologies and methods.

It was reported by Network World last month that Infonetics revealed metropolitan Ethernet sales grew by more than one quarter (27 per cent) last year.