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	Gigabit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gigabit is a unit of information or computer storage, abbreviated Gbit or sometimes Gb.
		The gigabit is closely related to the gibibit, which is unambiguously equal to 2
		This is sufficient to make it economically compelling to represent certain classes of storage devices in (true) gigabits or gigabytes rather than gibibits/gibibytes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gigabit (148 words)

	Gigabit Ethernet - a Whatis.com definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gigabit Ethernet, a transmission technology based on the Ethernet frame format and protocol used in local area networks (LANs), provides a data rate of 1 billion bits per second (one gigabit).
		Gigabit Ethernet is defined in the IEEE 802.3 standard and is currently being used as the backbone in many enterprise networks.
		Gigabit Ethernet is carried primarily on optical fiber (with very short distances possible on copper media).
	searchnetworking.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212193,00.html (192 words)

	Intel(R) Network Connectivity Technical Brief - Gigabit Ethernet Technology
		Now, Intel is also a founding member of the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance, which by early 1998 is expected to obtain IEEE approval for the next important standard in networking: 1000 Mbps Ethernet.
		Gigabit Ethernet is an extension of the highly successful 10 Mbps (10BASE-T) Ethernet and 100 Mbps (100BASE-T) Fast Ethernet standards for network connectivity (see Figure 2).
		Gigabit Ethernet deployment scenarios will most likely mirror the model of Fast Ethernet, though the new technology is expected to become standardized and implemented at an even faster rate.
	www.intel.com /network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/tech_brief/gigabit_ethernet.htm (1531 words)

	Gigabit Ethernet Gig-E GE Providers
		Gigabit Ethernet is Ethernet running at 1 billion bits per second over optic fiber or copper.
		Gigabit Ethernet is growing in availability and demand due to the expansion of fiber lines without wavelength division multiplexing being laid across the continent at an outstanding growth rate.
		Gigabit Ethernet requires far less complicated equipment because it uses the same protocol as most standard LAN so multiplexing is bypassed by means of a switch.
	topsavings.net /gigabit-ethernet.html (1004 words)

	Review: Gigabit Network Combo
		The gigabit module might have a couple of RJ45 gigabit ports on it, or a couple of gigabit optical fibre ports.
		The gigabit port just sits at the end of the row of regular ports, in the same place as the crossover-wired "uplink" port on many plain 10/100 switches.
		Consumer gigabit Ethernet is young enough that the chipset used by your NIC is something to which you should pay attention, if you're not a Windows user.
	www.dansdata.com /gigabit.htm (2353 words)

	Cisco - Gigabit Campus Network Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gigabit Ethernet trunks connect Layer 2 switches in each wiring closet to a redundant pair of Layer 3 switches in the distribution layer.
		Each gigabit uplink is a native routed interface on the Layer 3 switches in the distribution layer.
		Although server manufacturers support a variety of NIC connection rates such as Gigabit Ethernet, the underlying network operating system may not be able to transmit at maximum capacity.
	www.cisco.com /warp/public/cc/so/neso/lnso/cpso/gcnd_wp.htm (6155 words)

	BYTE.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Pundits say that Gigabit Ethernet, because of its relatively low cost and easy fit with existing Ethernet, will be adopted quicker than previous high-speed technologies such as Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM).
		Gigabit Ethernet products that vendors are releasing will typically feature new silicon and firmware/software based on the draft that was frozen in July.
		In July, the Gigabit Ethernet Allian ce, representing the industry, announced the formation of a Gigabit Ethernet Consortium at the University of New Hampshire interoperability lab.
	www.byte.com /art/9710/sec5/art3.htm (2799 words)

	IT Architect \| Gigabit Ethernet Gets a New Look \| August 1, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From the start, Gigabit Ethernet was positioned as a way to upgrade Fast Ethernet backbone connections, including those from switch to switch as well as from switches to server farms.
		Gigabit Ethernet over multimode fiber has a distance limitation of just over 500 meters (m), making it a good choice for building backbones and server connections.
		Gigabit Ethernet has been essentially closed off to potential users who don’t have a fiber optic backbone and can’t afford one in the near term.
	www.itarchitect.com /shared/article/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=8702502 (1442 words)

	Cisco - Introduction to Gigabit Ethernet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since Gigabit Ethernet significantly leverages on Ethernet, customers will be able to leverage their existing knowledge base to manage and maintain gigabit networks.
		The current connector type for FibreChannel, and therefore for Gigabit Ethernet, is the SC connector for both single-mode and multimode fiber.
		Gigabit Ethernet is a viable technology that allows Ethernet to scale from 10/100 Mbps at the desktop to 100 Mbps up the riser to 1000 Mbps in the data center.
	www.cisco.com /warp/public/cc/techno/media/lan/gig/tech/gigbt_tc.htm (3729 words)

	Gigabit Ethernet and Low-Cost Supercomputing
		Proprietary solutions for gigabit interconnects such as Myrinet from Myricom and Memory Channel from DEC are being challenged by the rapid emergence of Gigabit Ethernet.
		Since the deployment of Gigabit Ethernet ensures that the network is not the bottleneck, the servers are allowed to operate with maximum efficiency.
		Interestingly, the Gigabit Ethernet driver for the Packet Engines G-NIC® developed at SCL for the FreeBSD operating system shows a nice curve under NetPIPE, with no severe dropouts (a slight modification was made to the FreeBSD kernel to force TCP to not delay ACKs).
	www.scl.ameslab.gov /Publications/Gigabit/tr5126.html (3725 words)

	MRV Communications, Inc. - Upgrading FDDI to Gigabit Ethernet
		Gigabit Multimode Extension (GMX), which actually couples enough power into multimode fiber to run Gigabit Ethernet to distances of well over 2km.
		Gigabit Ethernet technology by itself does not provide the ring-redundancy that FDDI provides, however MRV offers a wide range of standards-based redundancy protocols, including Rapid Spanning Tree for a fast fail-over to backup fiber-optic connections.
		When upgrading from FDDI to Gigabit Ethernet, one must be sure to check the fiber-optic distances and make decisions about what kind of topology and redundancy to implement.
	www.mrv.com /solutions/fddi_to_gigabit.php (530 words)

	ProCurve Networking by HP - Delivering Gigabit Ethernet to the Network Edge
		With the emergence of Gigabit Ethernet technologies, which have 10 times the speed of 100Mbit networks and 100 times the speed of standard Ethernet, access to blazing fast network connectivity has become a reality—not only in the network infrastructure, but also on PC desktops and workstations (see Figure 1).
		Until recently, the cost of Gigabit Ethernet limited it to the network center and its use was reserved for the highest priority applications.
		Deploying Gigabit to the Edge of an enterprise network is advantageous not only to desktop users hungry for more bandwidth and faster download speeds; the benefits for network administrators also offer powerful incentives for migrating to Gigabit Ethernet.
	www.hp.com /rnd/pdf_html/gig_to_edge_whitepaper.htm (2604 words)

	Ethernet
		Gigabit Ethernet, for example, is defined to operate over either twisted-pair or optical fiber cable, but each specific type of cable or signal-encoding procedure requires a different physical layer implementation.
		This time, the developers elected to maintain approximately the same maximum collision domain diameters as 100-Mbps networks and to increase the apparent minimum frame size by adding a variable-length nondata extension field to frames that are shorter than the minimum length (the extension field is removed during frame reception).
		Figure 7-7 shows the MAC frame format with the gigabit extension field, and Table 7-1 shows the effect of the trade-off between the transmission data rate and the minimum frame size for 10-Mbps, 100-Mbps, and 1000-Mbps Ethernet.
	www.cisco.com /univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ethernet.htm (10000 words)

	HELIOS Software GmbH - Gigabit Ethernet
		Gigabit Ethernet adapters in a server make only sense if mutiprocessor systems are used.
		Another issue to watch for is that not all switches are able to support the number of packets necessary to utilize the Gigabit bandwidth on multiple ports.
		For Gigabit Ethernet the RAID performance should give at least 50 MByte/sec which means each test should not take more than 20 seconds.
	www.helios.de /news/news99/N_14a_99.phtml (737 words)

	OCModShop
		The standard for gigabit Ethernet (802.3z) was approved by the IEEE at the July 1998 at the IEEE Standards Board meeting.
		Gigabit is also particularly favorable in a server environment where a lot of client to server or server to server action takes place.
		Gigabit isn't going to offer you anything noticeable during gaming so you might be better off sticking with your 100BASE-T setup.
	www.ocmodshop.com /default.aspx?a=234 (654 words)

	Gigabit Ethernet - The Wave of the Future
		Gigabit Ethernet (also know as Fast Ethernet or Fast LAN) is Ethernet that provides speeds of 1000 Mbps—one billion bits per second.
		Like its Ethernet and Fast Ethernet precursors, Gigabit Ethernet is a physical (PHY) and media access control (MAC) layer technology, specifying the Layer 2 data link layer of the OSI protocol model.
		Gigabit Ethernet Leverages Ethernet Equipment Costs The goal of the IEEE 802.3z Task Force, which developed the Gigabit Ethernet standard, was to specify connections that delivered 10 times the performance of Fast Ethernet at very affordable prices.
	www.protocols.com /papers/gigabit.htm (399 words)

	Gigabit Ethernet (Linktionary term)
		Gigabit Ethernet is a 1-gigabit/sec (1,000-Mbit/sec) extension of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet networking standard.
		Gigabit Ethernet can replace 100-Mbit/sec FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) and Fast Ethernet backbones, and it competes with ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) as a core networking technology.
		Gigabit Ethernet provides an alternative to ATM as a high-speed networking technology.
	www.linktionary.com /g/gigabit_ethernet.html (431 words)

	Gigabit (1000 Mbps) Ethernet: IEEE 802.3z (1000Base-X), 802.3ab (1000Base-T) & GBIC
		The Gigabit Ethernet is based on the Ethernet protocol, but increased speed tenfold over the fast Ethernet, using shorter frames with carrier Extension.
		Burst mode is a feature that allows a MAC to send a short sequence (a burst) of frames equal to approximately 5.4 maximum-length frames without having to relinquish control of the medium.
		Gigabit Ethernet is defined by IEEE (http://www.ieee.org) 802.3z and 802.3ab.
	www.javvin.com /protocolGigE.html (551 words)

	Market Report - Scalable Ethernet for LAN, MAN & WAN
		The Gigabit Ethernet industry has exploded since the IEEE 802.3z standard was unanimously approved and ratified by the IEEE Standards Board on June 25, 1998.
		Gigabit Ethernet products are readily available from Gigabit Ethernet vendors and have been snapped up by users who have been deploying Gigabit Ethernet products to upgrade their networks over the past year.
		Gigabit Networks focuses on Gigabit Ethernet migration and presents migration strategies for enterprise backbone, server farms, FDDI backbones, and power workstations.
	www.igigroup.com /st/pages/gigabitethernet.html (1319 words)

	Description Page: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
		The 10 Gigabit specifications are contained in the IEEE 802.3ae supplement to the 802.3 standard.
		The 10 Gigabit media types use a variety of letters to indicate the fiber optic wavelengths they use as well as the type of signal encoding used.
		The 10 Gigabit Ethernet signal encoding types include a "WAN interface sublayer" (WIS) which allows 10 Gigabit Ethernet equipment to be compatible with the Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) STS-192c transmission format.
	www.ethermanage.com /ethernet/10gig.html (1017 words)

	Gigabit Ethernet over Copper 1000T - HomeNetHelp.com
		Gigabit Ethernet is a networking technology ten times faster than current 100Mbps networks.
		Gigabit ethernet can now utilize Cat5 or better twisted pair cabling and the same RJ-45 connectors that are used in 10/100Mbps networks.
		To achieve gigabit speeds, you must use ethernet cable with all 8 wires (four pairs) present.
	www.homenethelp.com /web/explain/gigabit-ethernet.asp (578 words)

	RFP: Gigabit Ethernet Networks \| Page 1 \| May 3, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gigabit Ethernet is the logical choice for a low-cost, high-performance network upgrade, providing unparalleled speed and ease of management.
		To get a sense of the Gigabit Ethernet upgrade solutions vendors offer, we put out an RFP for a fictitious publishing company called MediaMagik, which aims to upgrade its existing backbone network.
		In the backbone, we called for N+1 redundancy, in which there is at least one more unit than the minimum required to carry the load, so that if any one switch goes down, the entire network will remain operational.
	www.networkcomputing.com /1009/1009f1.html (1009 words)

	gigabit - a Whatis.com definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For example, Gigabit Ethernet is a high-speed form of Ethernet (a local area network technology) that can provide data transfer rates of about 1 gigabit per second.
		Gigabits per second is usually shortened to Gbps.
		His definitions of kilobit, megabit, and gigabit, however, use binary number system exponents and their decimal equivalents.
	searchnetworking.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212192,00.html (236 words)

	How to achieve Gigabit speeds with Linux
		However achieving rates of the order of Gigabits per second is not straightforward.
		Gigabit Ethernet flow control (it should be active also on the connecting switch)
		Once again, you shouldn't attempt to transfer Gigabit/s of data when you haven't at least minimal control over all the links in the path.
	datatag.web.cern.ch /datatag/howto/tcp.html (2087 words)

	Wireless WAN Solutions up to Gigabit Ethernet, Configured & Installed by Meridian Microwave. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Our Gigabit Radio comes in a range of protected frequencies for single-hop path distances of 0-30 miles.
		The microwave acts simply as an extension of your internal LAN and delivers a true 1.2 gigabit per second payload (aggregated) with no latency issues.
		The gigabit configuration combines the bandwidth of four 155 megabit, OC3 radios to reach a throughput of 620 megabits per second in each direction.
	www.wirelessgigabitethernet.com (363 words)

	Amazon.com: Gigabit Ethernet Networking: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the capability to increase network traffic speeds by a factor of ten, Gigabit Ethernet technology is of critical importance to network engineers and administrators.
		With in-depth and hands-on knowledge from key contributors to the Gigabit Ethernet standard, Gigabit Ethernet Networking provides both the necessary context of the technology and advanced knowledge of its implementation.
		This comprehensive guide covers critical compatibility information for end stations, repeaters, switches, and routers in Gigabit Ethernet networks, transmission issues involving both copper and optical fiber physical layers, proven planning procedures that guide network engineers and architects in the installation and management of equipment used to implement Gigabit Ethernet, and more.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578700620?v=glance (744 words)

	GAMMA: The Genoa Active Message MAchine
		Network Of Workstations (NOWs) and clusters of PCs interconnected by modern, industry-standard LAN fabrics (Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet, SCI) and running the Linux operating system, have became an attractive and cost-effective architecture for parallel and distributed applications.
		Marco is the author of the GAMMA driver for the Netgear GA621/GA622 Gigabit Ethernet adapter.
		The testbed is a Gigabit Ethernet cluster of dual-CPU PCs with Linux 2.6 and the GAMMA driver.
	www.disi.unige.it /project/gamma (1432 words)

	Gigabit and 100Mbps Ethernet Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Alteon gigabit chip is derived from their HIPPI product line, and has design similarities with the Essential Communications board.
		A slow version of the gigabit Yellowfin core, apparently acquired in a intellectual property swap.
		Although the gigabit Ethernet standard hasn't yet been finalized, several vendor have already announced that they are working on products.
	www.scyld.com /100mbps.html (3017 words)

	Son of Gigabit Ethernet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a recent survey of 225 companies, Infonetics Research found that 40% plan to implement Gigabit Ethernet in their network backbones during the next 18 months, with 19% hooking in servers and 9% running the technology to the desktop.
		The technology has been primarily a LAN technology, but providers are latching onto Gigabit Ethernet as a less-expensive and simpler alternative to ATM in metropolitan-area networks (MAN).
		Standardization of Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet took just a couple of years, but the standards process could take a little longer than that for 10-Gigabit, Grow says.
	www.nwfusion.com /news/1999/080910ge.html (1116 words)

	AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet for Linux
		There seems to be a common misunderstanding that by plugging in a Gigabit Ethernet card, one will magically achieve ten times the performance compared to a machine with a Fast Ethernet connection.
		To obtain decent performance on a gigabit class network, it is important that both the TCP stack and the application software is properly tuned for the job.
		Gigabit Ethernet has some ``interesting'' properties (some people will even use the word `sick' to describe it) due to the way it was designed.
	jes.home.cern.ch /jes/gige/acenic.html (1110 words)

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