Network Engineering Asked by user3563894 on December 8, 2020
In multi-lane ethernet, are the lanes synchronized? i.e., if the symbol of byte 1 of a packet is sent in lane 1, the symbol of byte 2 of a packet is sent in lane 2, then symbol of byte 1 will be received before byte 2?
There's no simple answer.
How data is distributed across multiple lanes depends on the exact physical layer variant. With 1000BASE-T, possibly the most popular multi-lane variant, the four five-level symbols transmitted simultaneously form a four-dimensional tuple (4D-PAM5). Each symbol at 125 MBaud effectively transports two MAC bits, resulting in an effective data rate of 250 Mbit/s per pair or 1000 Mbit/s in total.
Effectively, each MAC byte is split into four two-bit groups, encoded and sent simultaneously across the four pairs. See IEEE 802.3 Clause 40 for details.
While that might look like a parallel transmission from a high point of view, it still is serial. The main difference is the common clock for parallel transmission lines (with the inherent clock skew problems) and the separate (embedded) clocks for each serial lane.
Other PHY variants may split data on the bit, nibble or even byte level. There's no general method.
Correct answer by Zac67 on December 8, 2020
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