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Re:800G Specification [pdf] by francoisLabonte on Thursday April 09, 2020 @04:12PM (#22826686)
Flex Ethernet is that attempt to standardize the lane stripping at whatever speed. Unfortunately that effort has grown to incorporate a kitchen sink worth of other features like groups and shaping... Which raises the hardware implementation cost and lowers the adoption rate.

https://www.oiforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OIF-FLEXE...

At the 100G/200G/400G/800G specs are highly repetitive and the only points of debate are the type of FEC required given the high speed signals, signal loss for cost effective board/cable/optics and how parallel the FEC will be (tradeoff of hardware implementation cost and added latency). FEC has been 2 engines in parallel since 400G.

Re:800G Specification [pdf] by nullc on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:28PM (#22829399)
It's interesting that there isn't a no FEC or a reduced FEC (for reduced latency) anymore in this latest standard.

Thanks for the citation!