Fast Ethernet
Introduction
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The InterOperability Laboratory Fast Ethernet Consortium is proud of the excellent work done by our student employees and staff. In these pages are references and links to thesis work completed by IOL student employees, papers presented by IOL staffers at various conferences, and white papers produced as part of the Laboratory's technological research and development process. We have also provided online tutorials and links to information related to the technologies we use and test.
Additional information about the 100BASE-TX and 100BASE-FX Technologies can be found in our Test Suites. Also see our General Ethernet Topics page and our list of useful acronyms.
100BASE-TX
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2004 |
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An overview of the 100BASE-TX PMA created by the UNH-IOL. |
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2004 |
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An overview of the 100BASE-TX PCS created by the UNH-IOL. |
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Jeff Lapak |
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2004 |
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A brief introduction to auto-negotiation created by the UNH-IOL. |
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Matthew Hersh |
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08/05/2005 |
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View this for a basic introduction to Copper and Fiber Ethernet Auto-Negotiation. |
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A brief tutorial that covers the basics behind Clause 28 Auto-Negotiation.
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While this tutorial does cover Next Page Exchanges it does not deal directly with Auto-Negotiation for 1000BASE-T devices.
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Matthew Hersh |
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04/18/2006 |
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A brief tutorial that covers the basics behind the Clause 40 Automatic MDI/MDI-X Configuration. |
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OAM
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Kevin Daines |
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March 2004 |
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Tutorial generated by the IEEE EFM task force. |
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Current as of IEEE P802.3ah/D3.2 |
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General Fast Ethernet Information
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Ethernet Alliance |
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2006 |
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A historical perspective of Ethernet. A look at the history of Ethernet from its fledgling days in the labs of Xerox PARC with Metcalfe and Boggs to its current trends with 10 Gigabit Ethernet. |
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Please refer to the Ethernet Alliance. |
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Seamus Crehan, George Kimura, Eric Lynskey and Chris Volpe |
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2006 |
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Representing the first public summary of objective, multi-vendor Ethernet conformance and interoperability testing conducted over an extended period. This whitepaper summarizes seven years of Fast and Gigabit Ethernet testing data gathered through the end of 2005, including test reports from 900 individual products representing several hundred companies. |
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Hadriel Kaplan and Bob Noseworthy |
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2004 |
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Originally presented at the 2001 Network+Interop event in Atlanta, this is an all encompassing overview of Ethernet technologies. |
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Charles Spurgeon |
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This site provides extensive information about Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) local area network (LAN) technology. This includes the original 10 Megabit per second (Mbps) system, 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet (802.3u), 1000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet (802.3z/802.3ab), and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (802.3ae). |
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Lantronix |
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This is a dated document on how Fast Ethernet can be used in a LAN topology. It has become slightly irrelevant with the advent of Gigabit and 10Gigabit Ethernet technologies. |
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Cisco Systems |
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05/28/2005 |
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Understand the required and optional MAC frame formats, their purposes, and their compatibility requirements. List the various Ethernet physical layers, signaling procedures, and link media requirements/limitations. Describe the trade-offs associated with implementing or upgrading Ethernet LANs - choosing data rates, operational modes, and network equipment. |
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This page was last updated on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 3:04:33 PM.
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