Fundamentals of Ethernet

In LAN technology ethernet is the most popular one. Ethenet was developed in 1970s
by Bob Metcalfe and David Boggs of the Xerox PaloAlto Research Center (PARC).
Ethernet uses both ring and bus topology.

Speed of data transfer
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* In older version it is......10Mb/s.

* In newer versions (fast ethernet) it is........ 100Mb/s to 1000Mb/s.

Transmission medium
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1. coaxial cable

2. special grades of twisted pair wiring

3. fiber optic cable.


Protocol used in ethernet
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Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CSMA/CD).

There are two kinds of ethernet based on media access control protocol.
They are....

1. Half Duplex Ethernet

2. Full Duplex Ethernet

These two are discussed below.

Half Duplex Ethernet
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A transmission medium is half duplex means that medium allows trafic
in one side at a time. That is consider two transmission nodes in both side
and these are communicating with each other , the medium is half duplex.
Then the procedure is that one node sent data when the channel is idil,else
a collision will occur.

Full Duplex Ethernet
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Full-duplex mode allows two nodes to simultaneously exchange data over a point to point link that provides independent transmit and receive paths.
A full-duplex 100 Mb/s station provides 200 Mb/s of bandwidth.



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