Ethernet – Part 2

With the exponential improvement of the Ethernet standard, the concept of collision domain, diameter, and window needed to be adjusted by looking at the relation between time it takes to transmit a frame and the transmission speed.  Since Fast Ethernet is ten times faster than that of Ethernet, the designer had to decide to either [...]

Ethernet – Part I

Ethernet is one of those funny technologies that we all learn in introduction to networking courses, operate on a daily basis in our enterprises, and that normally falls into the interesting paradox of being vitally important yet hardly noticed.  It is the most prolific commodity multi-access technology, but Ethernet is a technology whose success is [...]