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065-7930 16-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Gigabit Ethernet Technology
Gigabit Ethernet is an extension of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet utilizing
the same packet structure, format, and support for CSMA/CD
protocol, full duplex, flow control, and management objects, but
with a tenfold increase in theoretical throughput over 100Mbps Fast
Ethernet and a one hundred-fold increase over 10Mbps Ethernet.
Since it is compatible with all 10Mbps and 100Mbps Ethernet
environments, Gigabit Ethernet provides a straightforward upgrade
without wasting a company's existing investment in hardware,
software, and trained personnel.
The increased speed and extra bandwidth offered by Gigabit
Ethernet are essential to coping with the network bottlenecks that
frequently develop as computers and their busses get faster and
more users use applications that generate more traffic. Upgrading
key components, such as your backbone and servers to Gigabit
Ethernet can greatly improve network response times as well as
significantly speed up the traffic between your subnetworks.
Gigabit Ethernet enables fast connections to support video
conferencing, complex imaging, and similar data-intensive
applications. Likewise, since data transfers occur 10 times faster
than Fast Ethernet, servers outfitted with Gigabit Ethernet NIC's
are able to perform 10 times the number of operations in the same
amount of time.
In addition, the phenomenal bandwidth delivered by Gigabit
Ethernet is the most cost-effective method to take advantage of
today and tomorrow's rapidly improving switching and routing
internetworking technologies.
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