| | Frame Bursting: A Technique for Scaling CSMA/CD to Gigabit Speeds |
 | | The parameters for half-duplex operation were chosen to align with the requirements of current generic building cabling standards, rather than to match the natural way that network size scales inversely with speed, so a star-wired single repeater topology with a maximum diameter of 200 m is permitted. |
 | | Adding 1.5k-frame bursting lets us recover almost half this loss, raising the maximum throughput from 61 to 72 percent, which is very close to the 20 percent reduction in overhead we were hoping for. |
 | | Furthermore, there is little incentive to develop a new "large-diameter" operating mode for the existing speeds: because of the trend toward network segmentation for other reasons (management, control of broadcasts, etc.), a 200-m collision domain diameter is enough. |
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