Ethernet/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Local area network [r]: A range of techniques for interconnecting multiple computers, over physical media such as wire or over wireless radio, within a limited geographic area, typically multiples of 100 meters. ^[e]
• Medium access control [r]: The set of protocols and administrative conventions that let multiple computers or communications devices share a common network medium, usually referring to a local area network medium, but also an area of radio communications on a given part of the electromagnetic spectrum ^[e]
• Physical layer protocol [r]: A mechanical, and electrical or optical, specification that defines the connection between a computer and the transmission medium, aspects or all details of the transmission medium, or both ^[e]
• Digital Equipment Corporation [r]: Once the #2 company in the computer industry, now defunct; pioneered the minicomputer and much of networking, but dismissed the significance of the personal computer ^[e]
• Intel [r]: A major manufacturer of integrated circuit chips, especially processors. ^[e]
• Xerox [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• IEEE Project 802 [r]: The main standards body, with many working groups, that specifies technical standards for wired and wireless local area networks, with ranges up to tens of kilometers ^[e]
• IEEE 802.3 [r]: The primary standards body for evolved ethernet over physical media protocols. ^[e]
• Fast Ethernet [r]: Formally specified as IEEE 802.3u; first speed improvement over the original Ethernet 10 Mbps speed developed by the IEEE 802.3 project, operating at a nominal 100 Mbps speed; now the default speed of most PC interfaces although Gigabit Ethernet is increasingly common; autonegotiation to 10/100 speed is very widespread ^[e]
• Gigabit Ethernet [r]: Generic term for IEEE 802.3 operation at a nominal data rate of 1 Gbps; includes IEEE 802.3z operating over optical fiber and IEEE 802.3ab over twisted pair ^[e]
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 40 Gigabit Ethernet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 100 Gigabit Ethernet [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Remote Direct Memory Access over Converged Ethernet [r]: (RoCE, pronounced Rocky) high performance computing (HPC) architecture, which layers Infiniband on top of the physical and data link layers of IEEE 802.3, but replaces the TCP/IP end-to-end and routing protocols with their InfiniBand equivalents. ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• Medium access control [r]: The set of protocols and administrative conventions that let multiple computers or communications devices share a common network medium, usually referring to a local area network medium, but also an area of radio communications on a given part of the electromagnetic spectrum ^[e]
• Point of presence [r]: In telecommunications and computer networking, a location at which service providers can connect to one another, or where customers may connect to their service providers ^[e]
• Network topology [r]: Defines the method in which a computer network is architected; topologies can be either physical (meaning how the actual hardware is interconnected) or logical (meaning how that network is implemented by protocols in software) ^[e]
• IEEE Project 802 [r]: The main standards body, with many working groups, that specifies technical standards for wired and wireless local area networks, with ranges up to tens of kilometers ^[e]
• Computer networking media sharing protocols [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Point-to-Point Protocol [r]: A very flexible protocol for running data over a wide range of media, which use a logical point-to-point topology ^[e]