10 Gigabit Ethernet
Standards

10 Gigabit Ethernet

Section Title: Standards
Table Section Text: None

Standard	Publication year	Description

802.3ae	2002	10 Gbit/s Ethernet over fiber for LAN (10GBASE-SR, 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-ER, 10GBASE-LX4) and WAN (10GBASE-SW, 10GBASE-LW, 10GBASE-EW)

802.3ak	2004	10GBASE-CX4 10 Gbit/s Ethernet over twin-axial cable

802.3-2005	2005	A revision of base standard incorporating 802.3ae, 802.3ak and errata

802.3an	2006	10GBASE-T 10 Gbit/s Ethernet over copper twisted pair cable

802.3ap	2007	Backplane Ethernet, 1 and 10 Gbit/s over printed circuit boards (10GBASE-KR and 10GBASE-KX4)

802.3aq	2006	10GBASE-LRM 10 Gbit/s Ethernet over multi-mode fiber with enhanced equalization

802.3-2008	2008	A revision of base standard incorporating the 802.3an/ap/aq/as amendments, two corrigenda and errata. Link aggregation moved to 802.1AX.

802.3av	2009	10GBASE-PR 10 Gbit/s Ethernet PHY for EPON

802.3-2015	2015	The previous version of the base standard

802.3bz	2016	2.5 Gigabit and 5 Gigabit Ethernet over Cat-5/Cat-6 twisted pair – 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T

802.3-2018	2018	The latest version of the base standard incorporating the 802.3bn/bp/bq/br/bs/bw/bu/bv/by/bz/cc/ce amendments.

Sentence(s)

In the 10 Gigabit Ethernet, the 10GBASE-LRM, of 802.3aq is for multi-mode fiber.

final_sentence: In the 10 Gigabit Ethernet, the 10GBASE-LRM, of 802.3aq is for multi-mode fiber.