D-Link DGS-1008TL [6/17] Gigabit ethernet technology

NTRODUCTION

This section describes the features of the DGS-1008TL 8-Port

10/100/1000Mbps Gigabit Ethernet Switch, as well as giving some

background information about Gigabit Ethernet and switching

technology.

Gigabit Ethernet Technology

Gigabit Ethernet is an extension of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet, utilizing

the same packet structure, format, and support for CSMA/CD

protocol, full-duplex mode, flow control, and management objects,

but with a tenfold increase in theoretical throughput over 100Mbps

Fast Ethernet and a hundredfold increase over 10Mbps Ethernet.

Since it is backwards compatible with all 10Mbps and 100Mbps

Ethernet environments, Gigabit Ethernet provides a straightforward

upgrade without rendering a company’s existing investment in

hardware, software, and trained personnel obselete.

The increased speed and extra bandwidth offered by Gigabit

Ethernet is essential to coping with the network bottlenecks that

frequently develop as computers and their buses get faster and

more users use high-bandwidth applications that generate more

traffic. Upgrading key components, such as backbone and servers,

to Gigabit Ethernet can greatly improve network response times as

well as significantly speed up the traffic between your subnets.

Gigabit Ethernet supports video conferencing, complex imaging,

and similar data-intensive applications. Likewise, since data

transfers occur 10 times faster than Fast Ethernet, servers outfitted

with Gigabit Ethernet NIC’s are able to perform 10 times the

number of operations in the same amount of time.