Gigabit Ethernet Switch User’s Guide
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Introduction
improve network response times as well as significantly
speed up the traffic between your subnets.
Gigabit Ethernet enables fast optical fiber 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. And
with expected advances in the coming years in silicon
technology and digital signal processing that will enable
Gigabit Ethernet to eventually operate over unshielded
twisted-pair (UTP) cabling, outfitting your network with a
powerful 1000Mbps-capable backbone/server connection
creates a flexible foundation for the next generation of
network technology products.
Switching Technolog
Another key development pushing the limits of Ethernet
technology is in the field of switching technology. A switch
bridges Ethernet packets at the MAC address level of the
Ethernet protocol transmitting among connected Ethernet
or fast Ethernet LAN segments.
Switching is a cost-effective way of increasing the total
network capacity available to users on a local area network.
A switch increases capacity and decreases network loading
by making it possible for a local area network to be divided
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