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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 100-Mbps
Fast Ethernet and a hundredfold increase over 10-Mbps Ethernet.
Since it is compatible with all 10-Mbps and 100-Mbps 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 computer busses get faster and more users
using applications generate more traffic. Upgrading key
components, such as your b ackbone and servers to Gigabit
Ethernet can greatly improve network response times as well as
significantly speed up the traffic between your subnets.
Gigabit Ethernet supports 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.
The phenomenal bandwidth delivered by Gigabit Ethernet was
the most cost-effective method to take advantage of today's
rapidly improving switching and routing internetworking
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