When discussing Ethernet data, the terms frame and packet are often used interchangeably. Frames and packets are the electronic containers that carry our data from point-to-point by navigating LANs ...

Ever since its introduction in 1973, the Ethernet protocol has expanded and evolved to support every conceivable connectivity application. Ethernet is designed to be a non-deterministic packet-based ...

Ethernet and Sonet are on a crash course. With Ethernet continuing to push its way out of the enterprise into the access and metro sectors, developers of Sonet equipment are being pushed to map ...

Despite the popularity of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, a wired connection is useful, either as an alternative or, in some cases, as the main form of connectivity in embedded systems. Ethernet is the most ...

You can implement flexible Ethernet systems using the Virtex-5 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC. by Nick McKay, Senior Design Engineer, Xilinx, Inc. Soma Potluri, Senior Design Manager, Xilinx, Inc. Stuart ...

Before the existence of networked, intelligent automation components, one might have assumed that the most important skill of a maintenance engineer was clairvoyance. They seemed to divine the source ...

Ethernet is the major local-area network (LAN) in which we connect our computers, routers, and printers. It has taken an important role in the industrial engineering world, having become the ...

Blueprint topics covered in this chapter: This chapter covers the following subtopics from the Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching written exam blueprint. Refer to the full blueprint in Table I-1 in the ...

The future belongs to IP technology. But now, there are several plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH) network ports in the world. A key issue to operators and providers is realizing the transition or ...