ethernet networks

In a prior edition of this book the preface commenced with the paraphrase of
an old adage in an era of evolving local area networking technology: Ethernet
is dead—long live Ethernet!
Although advances in communications technology continue to occur at a
rapid pace, that paraphrase continues to be valid. Within the past decade, the
bandwidth of 10 Mbps Ethernet was advanced by a factor of one thousandwith
the introduction of a series of enhancements to the original Ethernet specification.
First, Fast Ethernet resulted in the bandwidth of Ethernet increasing
by a factor of 10 to 100 Mbps. The introduction of Gigabit Ethernet resulted in
another order of magnitude increase in bandwidth to 1 Gbps.

Từ khóa: Networking Concepts, Networking Standards, Ethernet Networks, Frame Operations, Networking Hardware, Switching Methods