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Doc. No.: PR/97-105
Reply to: Deborah J. Donovan at ddonovan@itic.nw.dc.us
Washington D.C., August 1997 - NCITS (National Committee for Information Technology Standards) announces approval of this new project being developed within Technical Committee, T11, I/O Interface - Device Level. The reference number for this project is 1249-D.
This project proposal recommends the development of a high-performance parallel optical interconnect standard with the following goals:
- Optical multi-mode fibers used in parallel, with the total bandwidth
being the sum of the bandwidth on the individual fibers.
- A system that is eye-safe in a commercial environment, either by limited
power from the operating fibers or by an open fiber control system to
reduce the power when not in a closed-loop configuration.
- A system that is general enough for use in other applications.
- Specification of the optical parameters, connectors, ferrules, and fiber.
- Specification of the electrical interface parameters.
Inquiries regarding this project [project 1249-D] and other Fibre Channel and HIPPI projects should be sent to the Chairman of T11, Mr. Roger Cummings, Distributed Processing Technology, 140 Candace Dr., Maitland, FL 32751. Email: cummings_roger@dpt.com.
The next meeting of T11 is October 9, 1997 in Tucson, Arizona. All organizations and individuals who are materially or directly affected are invited to participate.
An initial call for possible patents and other pertinent issues (copyrights, trademarks) is now being issued. Please submit information on these issues to the NCITS Secretariat at 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington DC 20005. Email: ncits@itic.nw.dc.us FAX: (202) 638-4922.
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