As the industry looks forward to higher data rates and increased throughput for the next generation of systems based on 224Gbps per lane, new specifications and technologies will be required. The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) has announced a framework document representing its efforts to identify the hardware interconnection application spaces where the communications and computer industries could benefit from interconnection definitions or Implementation Agreements (IA)...
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