Technology - Data 3 - Ethernet

Synopsis

This report discusses the technology and cabling of Ethernet at data rates of 10Mb/s, 100Mb/s, 1Gb/s and 10Gb/s via Cat 5 copper cable and via fibre. Also discussed are the future 40 and 100GB/s Ethernet developments.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Introduction
• 3. Shared medium and switched architectures
  • 3.1 Connecting multiple LANs
  • 3.2 Carrier-class Metro Ethernet
  • 3.3 Layers 1 and 2
• 4. Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
  • 4.1 Coaxial cable Ethernet 10Base2
  • 4.2 UTP 10Base-T Ethernet
  • 4.3 UTP 100Base-TX Ethernet
  • 4.4 Fibre 100Base-FX
  • 4.5 UTP 1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet
    • 4.5.1 4D/5PAM modulation
    • 4.5.2 Ubiquitous Gigabit Ethernet
• 5. Gigabit fibre Ethernet
  • 5.1 1000Base-SX
  • 5.2 1000Base-LX
• 6. 10Gb/s Ethernet
  • 6.1 Xenpak and other optical module standards
  • 6.2 10GBase-CX4
  • 6.3 10GBase-T UTP
  • 6.4 10Gbase-KR and 10Gbase-KX4
  • 6.5 10GBase-SR
  • 6.6 10GBase-LR
  • 6.7 10GBase-LRM
  • 6.8 10GBase-ER
  • 6.9 10GBase-ZR
  • 6.10 10GBase-LX4
• 7. 40GB/s and 100GB/s Ethernet
• 8. Related reports