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The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is a prominent non-profit consortium that was founded in 1998. It promotes the development and deployment of interoperable computer networking products and services through implementation agreements (IAs) for optical networking products and component technologies including SerDes devices. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Optical Internetworking ForumA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Data Communications and NetworkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The migration of the Optical Internetworking Forum common electrical interface standardization to optical intra-system interconnects beyond 25 Gb/sCited 2 times
- Go sideways: Common Electrical I/OA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Optical moduleA closely related topic
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
đź”— Related topics
- Common Electrical I/O The Common Electrical I/O (CEI) refers to a series of influential Interoperability Agreements (IAs) that have been published by the Optical Internetworking…
- Optical module An optical module is a typically hot-pluggable optical transceiver used in high-bandwidth data communications applications. Optical modules typically have…
- Coherent optical module Coherent optical module refers to a typically hot-pluggable coherent optical transceiver that uses coherent modulation (BPSK/QPSK/QAM) rather than amplitude…
- C form-factor pluggable The C form-factor pluggable (CFP, 100G form factor pluggable, where C is Latin: centum "hundred") is a multi-source agreement to produce a common form-factor…
- FlexE FlexE, short for Flexible Ethernet, is a communications protocol published by the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF). The OIF published the FlexE Interoperabil…
- System Packet Interface The System Packet Interface (SPI) family of Interoperability Agreements from the Optical Internetworking Forum specify chip-to-chip, channelized, packet…
- SPI-4.2 SPI-4.2 is a version of the System Packet Interface published by the Optical Internetworking Forum. It was designed to be used in systems that support…
- SerDes A serializer/deserializer (SerDes) is a pair of functional blocks commonly used in high speed communications to compensate for limited input/output. These…