The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (10GEA) was an independent (not directly related to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), although working in collaboration with it) organization which aimed to further 10 Gigabit Ethernet development and market acceptance. Founded in February 2000 by a consortium of companies, the organization provided IEEE with technology demonstrations (including, for instance, a May 7, 2002 demonstration in

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, in which a 200 plus kilometres 10Gb Ethernet network was deployed, using 10GBASE-LR, 10GBASE-ER, 10GBASE-SR and 10GBASE-LW ports, as well as presenting communication over the IEEE 802.3ae

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interface) and specifications. Its efforts bore fruit with the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board's approval in June 2002 of the IEEE 802.3 standard (formulated by the IEEE P802.3ae 10Gbit/s Ethernet Task Force). The 10GEA was founded by 3Com,

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, Intel Corporation,

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, Sun Microsystems, and World Wide Packets. Other companies at various times supporting the consortium included:

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Inc., Blaze Network Products, Cable Design Technologies, Corning Inc.,

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, Force10 Networks Inc.,

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Inc.,

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Ltd,

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, Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Mindspeed, Molex Inc., OFS (part of

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), Optillion,

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, Primarion, Quake Technologies (acquired by

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, and Velio Communications (later acquired by

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IEEE P802.3ae 10Gb/s Ethernet Task Force

Collection of archived 10GEA whitepapers
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