Common Electrical I/O
Generations of OIF Electrical Interfaces
Two earlier generations in this development path were defined by some of the same individuals at the ATM Forum in 1994 and 1995.

Common Electrical I/O

Section Title: Generations of OIF Electrical Interfaces
Table Section Text: Two earlier generations in this development path were defined by some of the same individuals at the ATM Forum in 1994 and 1995.

Gen.	IA Title	Pub. as	Clause #'s	Max per pair	Mult. of bit rate per wire	Typical appli cation	Year pub.	Adopted, adapted or influenced	Num. ranges	Modu- lations

8	CEI-112G	Presumably CEI 5.0	116 Gbit/s	580x	800GE thru 100GE	(started in 2016)	5

7	CEI-56G	CEI 4.0	16-22	56 Gbit/s	290x	400GE thru 50GE	2017	IEEE 802.3bs and 802.3cd, Infiniband HDR, 64G Fibre Channel	5	NRZ, PAM-4 and ENRZ

6.5	CEI-28G (added 25G LR)	CEI 3.1	11	28 Gbit/s (25 for LR)	140x	100GE thru 25GE	2011	InfiniBand EDR, 32G Fibre Channel, SATA 3.2, IEEE 802.3 100GBASE-KR4, 100GBASE-CR4 and CAUI4, SAS-4, Interlaken 1.9	4	NRZ

6	CEI-28G	CEI 3.0,	10, 12-14	28 Gbit/s	140x	100GE thru 25GE	2008	InfiniBand EDR, 32GFC, SATA 3.2, IEEE 802.3 CAUI4, SAS-4, Interlaken 1.9	4	NRZ

5	CEI-11G	CEI 2.0	8-9	11 Gbit/s	55x	OC-768, 100GE, 40GE	2008	InfiniBand QDR, 10GBASE-KR, 10GFC, 16GFC, SAS-3, RapidIO v3, Interlaken	3	NRZ

4	CEI-6G	CEI 1.0	6-7	6 Gbit/s	30x	OC-768 (~40 Gbit/s)	2004	4GFC, 8GFC, InfiniBand DDR, SATA 3.0, SAS-2, RapidIO v2, HyperTransport 3.1, Interlaken	2	NRZ

3	SxI-5	SxI-5 and CEI 1.0	4-5	3.125 Gbit/s	16x	OC-192, 10GE	2002, 2004	Interlaken, SPI-5, SFI-5, FC 2G, InfiniBand SDR, XAUI, 10GBASE-KX4, 10GBASE-CX4, SATA 2.0, SAS-1, RapidIO v1	1	NRZ

2	SPI-4.2	SPI-4, 4.2	0.8 Gbit/s	4x	OC-48 (2.488 Gbit/s)	2001-2	HyperTransport 1.03	1	NRZ

1	SPI-3	SPI-3	0.1 Gbit/s (single ended)	1 (ref)	OC-12 (0.622 Gbit/s)	2000	(From PMC-Sierra's PL-3)	1	NRZ

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The OIF began work on its eighth generation with its CEI-112G project.

final_sentence: The OIF began work on its eighth generation with its CEI-112G project.