Storage Networking Roadmaps Disclaimer

• Opinions expressed during this presentation are the views of the presenters, and should not be considered the views or positions of the Alliance.

2 Roadmaps

• Industry has adopted doubling down on speeds • Innovation coming from more directions • It’s getting harder to double down each time • www.fibrechannel.org/roadmap/ • www.ethernetalliance.org/roadmap/

3 What was the Top Selling Albums/Artist of Back to the 90s the Year according to Billboard Magazine?

• Gigabit Fibre Channel was named after the line rate with 8B/10B encoding of 100MB/s ‒ 100MB/s = 800Mb/s ‒ 800Mb/s/8*10 = 1Gb/s • leveraged 1GFC standards 1GFC 1GbE

1996 1998

4 The New Millenium

• Fibre Channel doubles its speed • Optical Speed Negotiation seems an insurmountable obstacle • Lots of hype about 10G 2GFC 10GbE changing the world

2000 2002

5 58,000 10GbE Ports Ship 2.5M 2GFC Ports Ship The Early Naughts -’Oro - 2004

• 10GFC standardized • Fibre Channel doubles again to 4GFC • 10GbE has 300 pin MSA, XENPAK and X2 modules 10GFC 4GFC

10GbE XENPAK 2GFC SFP+ 2003 2004

6 The Mid Naughts

• Fibre Channel doubles again to 8GFC • 10GbE XFP standardized • 10GFC released with little sales 8GFC 2006 294,000 10GbE Ports Ship 5M 4GFC Ports 10GbE Ship 4GFC SFP+ 2006 XFP -Dell’Oro

7 The Late Naughts

2009 • Fibre Channel doubles again 2.75M 10GbE to 16GFC Ports Ship 2.3M 4GFC + • 10GbE SFP+ standardized 3.5M 8GFC Ports Ship -Dell’Oro 16GFC

10GbE SFP+ 8GFC SFP+ 2009

8 The Tens

• Ethernet jumps to 40 and 100GbE • Fibre Channel doubles again to 32GFC • 40GbE QSFP+ standardized 40 and 100GbE 32GFC

See next 40 100 32 page 40GbE QSFP+ 100GbE Modules 2010 2013

9 100GbE Form Factors Router Market Requires Higher Speeds Quickly

18.35mm

QSFP28

10 10G to 100G Transitions 2.5M 10GbE Reaches 1.9M 1.6M 1M High Volume in 40GbE Reaches 2009 High Volume in 7 Years 2014 4 Years 100K 100GbE Reaches High Volume in 10K 2016 6 Years 1 Year after 4X25G products 1K 10GbE 100GbE start shipping 10GbE 40GbE Standard 2002

Annual Switch Port Shipments Port Switch Annual 0

2000 SFP+ 2010 2020 40GbE and 100GbE and Standard 100GbE Standard 25GbE Standard 11 SOURCE: DELL’ORO SWITCH AND ROUTER FORECASTS Router Port Shipments

10GbE Routers 1.0M - 2016 1M Reaches High Volume in 2016 100GbE Doesn’t 14 Years Reach High 100K Volume in Forecast 100GbE 10K 10GbE

40GbE Never 1K Reaches Low Volume 40GbE (10K ports/year)

Annual Router Port Shipments Port Router Annual 0 2000 2010 2020

12 SOURCE: DELL’ORO ROUTER FORECASTS Fibre Channel Ports

• This is Fibre Channel switches and HBAs as well as FCoE • Fibre Channel stayed focused on 2 modules

13 The Teens

• Fibre Channel quadruples to 128GFC ? • 100GbE QSFP+ standardized

128GFC 25GbE

See next 128 25 page 100GbE QSFP+ 100GbE Modules 2014 2016

14 To Terabit Speeds

• Serial speeds in SFP are great for servers and switches • Quad speeds in QSFP are good for networking • Highly parallel speeds are needed for routers

15 The 2016 Ethernet Roadmap - Front

16 The 2016 Ethernet Roadmap - Back

17 The New Nomenclature Chart

18 50-56G Developments 25G PAM-2 Signals • Ethernet and Fibre Channel 1 are basically doubling the data rate by converting from PAM-2 ( 1-bit NRZ with 0 or 1) to PAM-4 (2-bit – 00, 01, 10 or 0 11) • OFC had many 50G PAM-4 50G PAM-4 Signals demonstrations 11 • Many open technical issues as 10 shown on next slide 01

00 19 50-56G Signaling Challenges

• Which FEC to use ‒ KR4 RS-FEC for compatibility with 25GbE and 32GFC ‒ KP4FEC for more coding gain and compatibility with CDAUI-8 ‒ FEC latency • Speed Negotiation with PAM-4 • Allocation of budgets to electrical interfaces and optical modules • Testing methodology of PAM-4 • PAM-4 signaling in FS-5

20 FEC Implications RS(544,514) FEC Makes ASICs Significantly Larger

Speed KR-FEC RS(528,514) RS(544,514 Serial ) Link Rate (Gbps) 16GFC V 14.025 32GFC V 28.05 400GbE V 53.125 (50G lanes) 64GFC V 56.1 64GFC V 57.8

21 How do we get to 100G Lanes? 25G PAM-2 Signals 50G PAM-4 Signals 11 1 10 V = 1/3 = 9dB 01 penalty 0 00

50G PAM-2 Signals 100G PAM-4 Signals 1 11 10 01 0 00

22 Holy Grail of the 100GbE SFP+

• The first company to publicly demonstrate a 100GbE SFP+ under 1.5W will win the Holy Grail • Find out more information at: http://www.ethernetalliance.org/wp- content/uploads/2013/04/Ethernet- Alliance-100GbE-Challenges-09-16- 14.pdf

23 TFC and TbE

24 Abbreviated Fibre Channel Roadmap http://fibrechannel.org/fc-roadmaps/ Product Throughput Line Rate T11 Specification Market Naming (Mbytes/s) (Gbaud) Technically Availability Complete (Year)* (Year)* 8GFC 1,600 8.5 2006 2008

16GFC 3,200 14.025 2009 2011

32GFC 6,400 28.05 2013 2016

128GFC 25,600 4X28.05 2014 2016

64GFC 12,800 56.1 2017 2019

256GFC 51,200 4X56.1 2017 2019

128GFC 25,600 TBD 2020 Market Demand

256GFC 51,200 TBD 2023 Market Demand

512GFC 102,400 TBD 2026 Market Demand

1TFC 204,800 TBD 2029 Market Demand

25 1 Doubling Down to Infinity 2

4 • Can we keep doubling down and continue winning? 8 • Will we reach a physical barrier where parallel is better than 16 serial? ‒ Processors have… 32 • Don’t bet against innovation! 128 64 64

26 Thank you!