Uber high-speed LAN Ethernet standard that can transmit at 1,000 megabits (1 gigabit) per second. It's defined by IEEE 802.3z and I beleive it can be run on copper, fiber optic, and even category 5 cabling. Right now, I think it's primary use is as backbone (vertical) cabling between wiring closets at businesses/schools. It's still pretty expensive to use.
Gigabyte Ethernet or Gig-E is a newer LAN topology that builds on the 10 megabyte or 100 megabyte (Fast Ethernet) technologies. We are completing an installation at our hospital. It can provide you a 10-100 fold increase in available bandwidth (and even more if you are moving from a shared environment to a "switched" environment by further isolating network traffic).
We chose Gig-E because we have gone to Digital Radiology. Our X-rays are now 40-60 mb images that are read on diagnostic level monitors that our providers and radiologists can manipulate on screen and zip around the hospital net with ease. We are almost completly out of the "printing of films" business.
The advantage for computers is that you can now move multimedia content and larger files without bottlenecks that exist in lower bandwidth legacy LANs.
ATM tops out at 622Mb while Gig-E is 1000Mb and now there is even 10Gig-E (10,000Mb). We chose Foundry as our hardware provider. It is head and shoulders above Cisco, Extreme, and others.
Network managers can also incorporate Quality of Service to guarantee available bandwidth and set priorities on network traffic.
An Apple Gigabyte Ethernet network interface card (NIC) would give you a 1000mb uplink. This is not normally the case. Most users are 100mb uplink and the 100mb switch uses a 1000(Gig-E) backbone. Sometimes servers will have a Gig-E NIC but the switch will have to have Gig-E uplink ports. You also need to confirm whether the uplink is Single Mode or Multi-mode if it is a optical fiber interface. There is also now a copper interface that uses ethernet cable at Gig-E speeds but you need to confirm what type of cable and what type of interface so that you can connect successfully. Exciting stuff.
Gigabit Ethernet will come down in price(it already has come down alot for NICs) and as our computer subsystems get faster the performance will only get better. Think about it..gigabit ethernet theoretically supports transfers of roughly 120MBps. That's faster than ANY single drive can maintain but users of Gigabit Ethernet say that they see a great increase with RAID systems that can produce that throughput. So in short...as computers get faster..they will catch up to Gigabit Ethernet and it will become the new standard(as it is backwards compatible down to 10T). Now if only the Switches would come down
You guys are missing out on the speed. I have gigabite Ethernet at my business. I can download anything I want in 1 sec or less it's unbelivable. Pardon my spelling, in a rush. I have a New Power Mac 1Ghz Dual. It's awsome. It's starts around $250 a month for gigabite. Not bad for about 890MB/sec average. Everyone should upgrade.
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<strong>That's my question.
And who is using it?
Thanks,
Dr. L</strong><hr></blockquote>
Uber high-speed LAN Ethernet standard that can transmit at 1,000 megabits (1 gigabit) per second. It's defined by IEEE 802.3z and I beleive it can be run on copper, fiber optic, and even category 5 cabling. Right now, I think it's primary use is as backbone (vertical) cabling between wiring closets at businesses/schools. It's still pretty expensive to use.
Why do people use 1000Mbit BaseT Ethernet instead of 100Mbit? Because its faster.
Who uses it?
People who need to copy really much pr0n, fast.
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<strong>That's my question.
And who is using it?
Thanks,
Dr. L</strong><hr></blockquote>
Gigabyte Ethernet or Gig-E is a newer LAN topology that builds on the 10 megabyte or 100 megabyte (Fast Ethernet) technologies. We are completing an installation at our hospital. It can provide you a 10-100 fold increase in available bandwidth (and even more if you are moving from a shared environment to a "switched" environment by further isolating network traffic).
We chose Gig-E because we have gone to Digital Radiology. Our X-rays are now 40-60 mb images that are read on diagnostic level monitors that our providers and radiologists can manipulate on screen and zip around the hospital net with ease. We are almost completly out of the "printing of films" business.
The advantage for computers is that you can now move multimedia content and larger files without bottlenecks that exist in lower bandwidth legacy LANs.
ATM tops out at 622Mb while Gig-E is 1000Mb and now there is even 10Gig-E (10,000Mb). We chose Foundry as our hardware provider. It is head and shoulders above Cisco, Extreme, and others.
<a href="http://www.foundrynet.com"; target="_blank">www.foundrynet.com</a>
Network managers can also incorporate Quality of Service to guarantee available bandwidth and set priorities on network traffic.
An Apple Gigabyte Ethernet network interface card (NIC) would give you a 1000mb uplink. This is not normally the case. Most users are 100mb uplink and the 100mb switch uses a 1000(Gig-E) backbone. Sometimes servers will have a Gig-E NIC but the switch will have to have Gig-E uplink ports. You also need to confirm whether the uplink is Single Mode or Multi-mode if it is a optical fiber interface. There is also now a copper interface that uses ethernet cable at Gig-E speeds but you need to confirm what type of cable and what type of interface so that you can connect successfully. Exciting stuff.
I believe it's bit, not byte. There's a big difference.
I wondered why no one at our University ever used the word, and Apple promotes it.
Also, I am still stuck with a modem just outside Toledo. There is no higher-speed provider.
<strong>newbie:
I believe it's bit, not byte. There's a big difference.</strong><hr></blockquote>
starfleetX,
thanks for the correction. A typo of grand proportions. Mb (megabit) and Gigabit is what I meant to type/say.
"Master" of the Mac.