How can involvement in the Backplane Ethernet Consortium save my company money?
Perhaps the primary financial benefit of the Backplane Ethernet Consortium lies in the assembly and maintenance of a Backplane Ethernet device interoperability test bed, which is a continually updated collection of representative products from all participating members. The mutually beneficial aspects of having a continuously available reference interoperability test bed which companies can use to verify proper operation of their new Backplane Ethernet products is the single most beneficial aspect of the Consortium. Because of the group nature of the consortium, the reference test bed can be built at a significantly lower cost per member than what it would cost for any single member to attempt to build the same caliber test bed on its own (provided it were even possible to get access to such a large collection of pre-release products, which isn’t the case in the early stages of any new technology.) Also, the physical and protocol compliance test services, which are included as part of
