Eliminate the WiredBottleneck with Cisco Multigigabit TechnologyWe are living in the digital age. Always-on connectivity is driving new wireless standards like 802.1ac Wave 2 and 802.11ax. But wireless has now exceeded the capacity of your wired infrastructure, creating a bottleneck.

The Challenge

Wireless use examples: vertical markets

GovernmentSecurity Cameras

HealthcareMedical Devices

ManufacturingMachine Vision

EducationLAN Hando�

FinancialAttached Storage

Repercussions of Digital Transformation

Wireless Exceeded the Capacity of Wired Networks in 2016 with 802.11ac Wave 2

802.11ax is on the horizon!

Cisco Multigigabit Technology Portfolio

Result: Gigabit Bottleneck

Data Traffic (2016-2021*)6X Growth in Mobile

How the Industry is Solving the Problem

The Solution

NBASE-T Alliance

Cisco Multgigabit Key Bene�ts

NBASE-T Alliance

Vendor alliance for 2.5G/5G BASE-T with 45+ participant companies

Components, silicon, systems, cabling, test, etc.

Enables widespread deployment, evolves speci�cations, facilitates interoperability.

5XSpeed increasewithout replacing thecabling infrastructure

Maintain Switchto AP Reach at Higher Speeds

Adaptive Rate Technology (FE, 1G, 2.5G, 5G, and 10G)

InfrastructureInvestmentProtection

Supports 100m distance with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling

up to 5G speeds

Supports Cat6a cabling deployments forhigher speeds

POE/POE+/UPOE

Up to 60W PoE over 10GBASE-T to support a

range of power needs

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StandardsCompliantCompliant with

1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T IEEE

standards

IEEE 802.3bz 2.5/5GBASE-T

standard in progress

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History of Cable Installation/Port Speed /Ethernet Speed

Number of Ethernet Switch Ports Sold (By Speed)

Evolution of Ethernet Speeds Over Cat Cables (3-8)

Ethernet Speed

Speed in Development

More than 5.6 billion 100BASE-T & 1000BASE-T switch ports shipped in last 20 years.

Another 2.4 billion more ports expected to be added by 2022

Dell’Oro Group Ethernet Switch 5-year Forecast Jan 2017

2003 2005

1990

1990—10Base-T100m on Cat 3

1995—100Base-TX100m on Cat 5

2006—10GBase-T100m on Cat 6A

10M

100M

1G

10G

1T

2000 2010 2020

2010 2015 2020

500

1000

1500

2000

2500100 Gbps

40 Gbps

10 Gbps

1000 Mbps

100 Mbps

Link speed (b/s)1999—10Base-T100m on Cat 5e

2016—25GBase-T and 40GBASE-T30 m on Cat 8

2016—2.5GBase-T and 5GBASE-T100 m on Cat 5e/Cat 6

*Cisco 2017 Virtual Networking Index

Did You Know?

85BillionMeters

Between 2003 to 2017, over 85 billion meters of Cat 5e and

Cat 6 cabling were sold

1980Standards Were

Established

Originally based on CSMA/CD, Ethernet

standards are 38 years old

5.6BillionPorts

More than 5.6 billion 100BASE-T/1000BASE-

T switch ports in the last 20 years

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Up to

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