| For those of you who are looking to reduce costs and | | | | the CSMA/CD Protocol. The 3 famous data rates are |
| increase bandwidth, Ethernet might be an option for | | | | as follows that operate over optical fiber and twisted |
| you. Most business owners or I.T. personnel know that | | | | pair cables which are 10 Mbps-10Base-T Ethernet, 100 |
| bandwidth can be expensive and with the ever | | | | Mbps-Fast Ethernet and 1000 Mbps-Gigabit Ethernet. |
| increasing number of files being downloaded and data | | | | What this means to the customer is bypassing the |
| being transmitted, the Bandwidth needs are increasing | | | | local carrier and plugging right into the data or telecom |
| dramatically. In the past the only real dedicated data | | | | providers network. For those of you who are familiar |
| connection you could get was from a T1 Line, Bonded | | | | with local loops for T1' and T3's, those can be quite |
| T1, DS3 or Fractional T3 and so on an so forth. | | | | expensive and because they are a fixed cost that |
| Now there is a new game in town and the name of it | | | | recurs every month, that's a fee that can be done |
| is Ethernet. Ethernet was developed around the 1970s | | | | without. The only draw back to Ethernet is that it's |
| by Xerox Corporation by an experimental coaxial | | | | limited to where the telecom provider has built out it's |
| cable network to transmit data up to 3 Mbps. That | | | | network. Usually, Ethernet is only in metropolitan areas |
| experiment brought upon some attention and led to | | | | and is otherwise known as Metro Ethernet. Now there |
| faster speeds in the 1980s of up to 10 Mbps Ethernet | | | | is a tool that enables the user to get real time pricing |
| Version 1.0 specification by 3 major influences whose | | | | and Ethernet Network availability by just inputting the |
| Corporate names are Digital Equipment, Intel and | | | | exact physical location and phone number associated |
| Xerox. There are 3 standards of Ethernet that are | | | | with the service inquiry. |
| covered by IEEE 802.3 what is commonly known as | | | | |