How does gigabit ethernet work?

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Wed Feb 10 15:04:56 1999

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Arfon Gryffydd wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how they gigabit ethernet works?
>
> How can they get such high data transfer rate and how can the cards process
> the packets so fast???

A great newsgroup for this sort of question is comp.dcom.telecom.tech. I
go there whenever I run into some sort of datacom/telecom snag and my
question is usually answered within the day, usually by more than one
person. There are lots of smart dudes there.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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