10GBASE-T products provide data center managers and architects with unique capabilities to implement energy efficient data centers. Their use of structured cabling enables cooling and power distribution efficiencies through flexibility in equipment location, leveraging the hundreds of watts consumed by the server or switch. Solarflare® 10GBASE-T lowers the average power consumed by each port by using only the power each link length requires with its Dynamic Power Scaling™ feature. Additionally, 10GBASE-T enables Wake-on-LAN and saves power by turning off entire servers when they are not needed, saving hundreds of watts in each instance. In the future, 10GBASE-T will also provide IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet to further improve energy efficiency lowering consumption when the full capacity of the 10Gbps link is unused.

TIA-942 Data Center Networking Applications: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Over Twisted-pair Copper

Look for power tradeoffs in 10GBASE-T Ethernet

Twisted-pair Ethernet: Copper Cabling for High Performance Networking

10GBASE-T Testing of Belden IBDN® System 10GX
The transmission of 10GBASE-T over copper UTP cables comes through with flying colors in third party testing of the Belden IBDNystem 10GX.

Ethernet Alliance: 10GBASE-T: 10 Gigabit Ethernet over Twisted-pair Copper
By various authors including Bruce Tolley and George Zimmerman

Alien crosstalk field testing: BICSI Newsletter, March Issue

Unleashing the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Market Proving 10GBASE-T Performance and Reliability Under Worst-Case Conditions
by Bruce Tolley

100 Meter Analyst Presentation
By Bruce Tolley and George Zimmerman
This presentation describes the testing of the first 100meter, standard-reach compliant 10GBASE-T links at Solarflare in September 2006.

10GBASE-T Fact Sheet
This quick reference sheet answers most of the basic questions about the capabilities and requirements for standards-compliant 10GBASE-T transceivers.

DesignLine Article
By Bruce Tolley and George Zimmerman
As the 10GBASE-T standard neared publication in 2006, Solarflare described the key challenges to 10 Gigabit Ethernet transmission in this Network Systems DesignLine article.

Challenges for 10Gb/s Implementation on UTP Media
By George Zimmerman
Presented as an invited talk at the IEEE Laser and ElectroOptical Society’s High Speed Interconnect Conference in May 2006. This paper summarizes the major technical challenges and solutions to providing standards-compliant 10 G Ethernet transmission over unshielded twisted pair.

Innovative Technologies Enabling 10GBASE-T
By George Zimmerman
Presented at the Network Systems Design Conference in October 2005. This presentation addresses the need for 100 meter standardized 10GBASE-T, the status and capabilities in the standard, and solutions to achieving 100 meter reach within an economical power budget.

10GBASE-T: Beyond Limits
By Chris DiMinico
Presented to the Building Industry Consultant Service International (BICSI) meeting in August 2005. This presentation highlights cabling, installation, and test challenges and solutions for 10GBASE-T networks.

Challenges for 10 GB/s Implementation on UTP Media
By George Zimmerman
This technical presentation was made as an invited seminar to the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department, and provides a relatively complete overview of the coding and signal processing embodied in standards-compliant 10GBASE-T transceivers.

Copper at the Speed of Light: 10GBASE-T
By George Zimmerman
Presented as an “Ethernet Update” at the 2004 Next Generation Networks Conference, this presentation describes the need for 10 Gigabit Ethernet on twisted-pair copper media, as well as the status and path towards the 802.3an standard.

How SolarFlare Communications Broke the 10 Gbps on UTP Barrier
By Ron Cates
This presentation at the HotChips 2004 conference describes Solarflare’s prestandard integrated silicon which resulted in the worlds first 50m Cat5e and Cat6 10Gigabit Ethernet transmissions in 2004.

IEEE 802.3 10GBASE-T tutorial
By George Zimmerman, et al.
After convincing skeptics in November 2003 that 10GBASE-T was feasible in the first phase of the IEEE standard, Solarflare led this follow-up tutorial to the IEEE 802.3 body, which launched the actual writing of the 10GBASE-T standard.

Challenges for 10Gb/s Implementation on UTP Media
By George Zimmerman
This paper discusses some of the requirements for 10GBASE-T and presents simulation results for Solarflare’s pre-standard, world’s-first demonstration of 10 Gigabit Ethernet transmission over UTP. The presentation is accompanied by a written, published paper, presented at the 2003 Communications Design Conference.

Solarflare IEEE Tutorial Presentation
By George Zimmerman
Solarflare initiated the IEEE 10GBASE-T Study Group activity with this tutorial, describing technical challenges and solutions to 10Gbps Ethernet transmission over twisted pair.