Introduction to Gigabit Networking,Computers and their attachments (like networks and disks) are getting faster everyday. The current CPU speeds of processor like DEC Alpha and Pentium are well over 100MHz allowing them to perform billion instructions per second (BIPS). This speed is comparable to supercomputer’s speed five years ago. With the growing speed of computers the applications which run on them are now ranging from interactive graphics, voice recognition, video conferencing, real time animations etc. All these new applications will use networks to carry more data. Network bandwidth is also increasing concurrently with the CPU speeds. When in 1980s 10Mbs Ethernet was considered fast, we now have 100 Mbs Ethernet. The bandwidth is approaching the speed on 1 billion bits per second (1 Gbs), much due to the research in the field of fiber optic signalling.gigabit-networking

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