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5 unusual facts about gigabit Ethernet


Amsterdam Internet Exchange

AMS-IX members connect to the platform with 1, 10, 100 Gbit/s Ethernet connections, or using multiple gigabit or 10 gigabit aggregated ports, utilizing the 802.3ad standard.

Svalbard Undersea Cable System

Each segment has a speed of 10 gigabits per second (Gb/s), with a future potential capacity of 2,500 Gbit/s.

Takashi Hasegawa

He was one of five developers who created the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Media Converter, in support of 10GEA's effort to standardize 10-gigabit Ethernet.

Wolfenstein: Ray Traced

That image is sent to a thin-client (small laptop) over Gigabit Ethernet.

YAGO

YAGO (Yet Another Gigabit Operation) was an early LAN startup acquired by Cabletron Systems in the mid-1990s, fueling its growth into Gigabit Ethernet switching and ultimately being re-spun off into the entity Riverstone Networks.


Fiber media converter

Fiber media converters support many different data communication protocols including Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, T1/E1/J1, DS3/E3, as well as multiple cabling types such as coax, twisted pair, multi-mode and single-mode fiber optics.

Kentucky Linux Athlon Testbed

After some performance testing, it was determined by the Aggregate that the ideal solution for clustering the computers would be to create a Flat Neighborhood Network instead of using gigabit Ethernet because of cost concerns.

MaxCDN

MaxCDN's Nginx servers are located in Europe, North America and Asia; MaxCDN employs Anycast stateless routing for one-to-nearest content delivery over multiple 10 Gbit/s connections.

ProCurve Products

The 1800-24G also has 2 Dual Personality Ports (2 x Gb or SFP).

The 1700-24 also has 2 Dual Personality Ports (2 x Gb or SFPs).

UnixWare NonStop Clusters

In 2000 NSC was modified to allow standard Fast Ethernet and later Gigabit Ethernet switches as the cluster interconnect and commercialized by SCO as UnixWare NonStop Clusters 7.1.1+IP.


see also

Avaya VSP-4000 System

VSP 4850GTS, a 1RU Layer 2/Layer 3 Switch that is equipped with 48 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports (including two common ports offering SFP connectivity) plus 2 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports that feature SFP+ physical connectivity.