An industry group known as the Multi-rate Gigabit Ethernet BASE-T or MGBASE-T Alliance is helping bridge the bandwidth gap for the enterprise wireless access layer. The alliance is uniting around one idea: to bring cost effective multi-rate gigabit performance to enterprise access points by driving acceptance of a proposed Ethernet standard at 2.5Gbps and 5Gbps speeds. This new standard will effectively bridge the gap between existing 1Gbps to 10Gbps Ethernet networking gear.

Ongoing work from the MGBASE-T Alliance will be an integral part of the recently announced effort by the Ethernet Alliance to standardize 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T Ethernet. The study group, officially known as the IEEE P802.3bz 2.5/5GBASE-T Task Force, has already begun drafting the first standard.

ELEKCON is supporting 2.5G ethernet transformers and 10G Base-T ethernet transformers. Custom parts are welcomed.