Ethernet was first standardized in 1983 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic. Originally specified for a maximum of 2.94Mbit/sec, it has been revised many times to support higher bit rates, a greater number of nodes, more operating configurations and longer distances. Today Ethernet is the dominant architecture for local area networks (LANs). (more...)
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