With the rise of cloud computing, big data, mobile Internet and smart cities, the data traffic of the Internet is under explosive growth. Operators urgently need to upgrade their existing data centers to cloud data centers to provide more flexible services and applications . Today's data centers are primarily based on 10G Ethernet architectures and in order to be able to handle the increasing data load, these data centers must scale with increased bandwidth capabilities parallel to existing infrastructures. Interestingly, operators are now preferring evolution paths from 10Gbit / s to 25Gbit / s to 100Gbit / s, compared with the well-known 10Gbit / s → 40Gbit / s → 100Gbit / s upgrade path. Why 25G can replace 40G as a 10G relay baton? Looking back at the evolution of the Ethernet standard, the 40G and 100G standards have long been known as "Beads and Jade" before and after 2010. The 25G standard until only graduall...