Draft Amendment to IEEE Std 802.3-2012 IEEE P802.3bj/D3.2
11th April 2014
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Introduction
IEEE Std 802.3™ was first published in 1985. Since the initial publication, many projects have added func-
tionality or provided maintenance updates to the specifications and text included in the standard. Each IEEE
802.3 project/amendment is identified with a suffix (e.g., IEEE Std 802.3ba™-2010).
The Media Access Control (MAC) protocol specified in IEEE Std 802.3 is Carrier Sense Multiple Access
with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD). This MAC protocol was included in the experimental Ethernet devel
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oped at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. While the experimental Ethernet had a 2.94 Mb/s data rate,
IEEE
Std 802.3-1985 specified operation at 10 Mb/s. Since 1985 new media options, new speeds of opera-
tion, and new capabilities have been added to IEEE Std 802.3.
Some of the major additions to IEEE Std 802.3 are identified in the marketplace with their project number.
This is most common for projects adding higher speeds of operation or new protocols. For example, IEEE
Std 802.3u™ added 100 Mb/s operation (also called Fast Ethernet), IEEE Std 802.3x specified full duplex
operation and a flow control protocol, IEEE Std 802.3z added 1000 Mb/s operation (also called Gigabit
Ethernet), IEEE Std 802.3ae added 10 Gb/s operation (also called 10 Gigabit Ethernet), IEEE Std 802.3ah™
specified access network Ethernet (also called Ethernet in the First Mile) and IEEE Std 802.3ba added 40
Gb/s operation (also called 40 Gigabit Ethernet) and 100 Gb/s operation (also called 100 Gigabit Ethernet).
These major additions are all now included in and are superseded by IEEE Std 802.3-2012 and are not main
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tained as separate documents.
At the date of IEEE Std 802.3bj-201X publication, IEEE Std 802.3 is comprised of the following
documents:
IEEE Std 802.3-2012
Section One—Includes Clause 1 through Clause 20 and Annex A through Annex H and Annex 4A.
Section One includes the specifications for 10
Mb/s operation and the MAC, frame formats and service
interfaces used for all speeds of operation.
Section Two—Includes Clause 21 through Clause 33 and Annex 22A through Annex 33E. Section
Two includes management attributes for multiple protocols and speed of operation as well as specifica
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tions for providing power over twisted pair cabling for multiple operational speeds. It also includes
general information on 100
Mb/s operation as well as most of the 100 Mb/s Physical Layer specifica-
tions.
Section Three—Includes Clause 34 through Clause 43 and Annex 36A through Annex 43C. Section
Three includes general information on 1000
Mb/s operation as well as most of the 1000 Mb/s Physical
Layer specifications.
Editor’s Note (to be removed prior to publication):
This front matter is provided for comment only. Front matter is not part of a published standard and is
therefore, not part of the draft standard. You are invited to review and comment on it as it will be included
in the published standard after approval.
One exception to IEEE style that is consciously used to simplify the balloting process is the numbering of
the front matter. Instead of the front matter being lower case Roman numeral page numbers, with the draft
restarting at 1 with arabic page numbers, balloted front matter and draft are numbered consecutively with
arabic page numbers.
This introduction is not part of IEEE P802.3bj, IEEE Draft Standard for Ethernet. Amendment 2: Physical
Layer Specifications and Management Parameters for 100 Gb/s Operation Over Backplanes and Copper
Cables.