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What is 10Gb Ethernet?
Ethernet is an open standard technology that has been around for over 30 years continually evolving to become the dominant choice for wiring homes and enterprises around the world. Today, more than 85 percent of all installed network connections and more than 95 percent of all LANs are Ethernet-based.
The 10GbE specification was ratified by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) organisation in 2002 as IEEE Std 802.3ae-2002 and whilst remaining fully backward compatible with 1GbE, it offers significant advancements, such as:
- A ten-fold increase in bandwidth with data transmission speeds of up to 10 billion bits per second compared to 1GbE’s 1 billion bits per second
- Operates only in full-duplex mode as opposed to 1GbE’s half-duplex mode, which provides faster, lower-latency responses to network transmissions (latency, being the idling time wasted by one component waiting for a response from another)
- Designed to operate not only over local area networks (LAN) but also wide area networks (WAN).
10GbE adoption has now begun to accelerate, due to its cost-effective performance, proven flexibility, and wide applicability.
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