Now that you have completed this
chapter, you should a have a firm understanding of the following
concepts:
- Despite the advent of superior
standards, 10Mbps Ethernet is the most pervasive LAN technology
in the networking industry.
- Several 10 Mbps systems still
exist with varied media options such as copper and fiber and you
should expect to encounter this type of connection method for at
least another few years.
- Because of the limitations that
legacy Ethernet can impose on some applications, higher speed
network technologies had to be developed. IEEE created
Fast Ethernet to meet this need.
- With the capability to run in
full-duplex modes, Fast Ethernet offers significant bandwidth
leaps to meet the needs of many users.
- For real bandwidth consumers,
Gigabit Ethernet offers even more capacity to meet the needs of
trunking switches together and to feed high performance file
servers.
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