Gigabit Ethernet As if 100 Mbps is not enough, yet another higher bandwidth technology was unleashed on the industry in June of 1998. Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3z) specifies operations at 1000 Mbps, another tenfold bandwidth improvement. We discussed earlier how stations are hard-pressed to fully utilize 100 Mbps Ethernet. Why then do we need a Gigabit bandwidth technology? … [Read more...]
Fast Ethernet
Fast Ethernet When Ethernet technology availed itself to users, the 10 Mbps bandwidth seemed like an unlimited resource. (Almost like when we had 640k of PC RAM…it seemed we would never need more!) Yet workstations have developed rapidly since then, and applications demand more data in shorter amounts of time. When the data comes from remote sources rather than from a local … [Read more...]