Flex Ethernet is that attempt to standardize the lane stripping at whatever speed. Unfortunately that effort has grown to incorporate a kitchen sink worth of ot

Flex Ethernet is that attempt to standardize the lane stripping at whatever speed. Unfortunately that effort has grown to incorporate a kitchen sink worth of other features like groups and shaping... Which raises the hardware implementation cost and lowers the adoption rate. https://www.oiforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OIF-FLEXE-02.0-1.pdf https://www.oiforum.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OIF-FLEXE... At the 100G/200G/400G/800G specs are highly repetitive and the only points of debate are the type of FEC required given the high speed signals, signal loss for cost effective board/cable/optics and how parallel the FEC will be (tradeoff of hardware implementation cost and added latency). FEC has been 2 engines in parallel since 400G.