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Gigabit Ethernet and 10-gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet and 10-gigabit Ethernet

From the course: CompTIA Network+ (N10-008) Cert Prep

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Gigabit Ethernet and 10-gigabit Ethernet

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- In the 1990s, the ethernet powers at be came up with gigabit ethernet and gigabit ethernet really changed things in that it took us from 100 megabits per second to 1000 megabits per second. So when we're talking about gigabit ethernet, traditionally what we're talking about is 1000Base something. Now there are four gigabit ethernet standards that you're going to see on the Network+ exam. First of all is a very old one and a weird one called 1000BaseCX. 1000BaseCX is weird because it's a copper standard, but it uses a very strange coaxial cable called twinax. And it was a whopping 25 meters between your switch and the individual nodes. Now there actually is some 1000BaseCX out there, I've seen a few installations, but it's for the most part, rare and weird. The other three use more traditional fiber optic or UTP-type cabling. On the fiber optic side you have two, you have 1000BaseSX, which uses multimode fiber optic cable, and can have distances up to about 500 meters. Then you have…

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