Since the AV world has gone a little crazy over Ethernet and IP, I decided to try to learn more about each by using books and web sources. To my surprise, it seems as though there is not uniform ...

Ethernet is a frame-based data communication technology that employs variable-sized frames to carry a data payload. This contrasts with long-haul Optical Transport Networks (OTN) that use fixed-sized ...

An IEEE task force is nearing completion of a standard to run Ethernet at a blistering 10 gigabits per second, which will mean an Ethernet that’s not only 10 times faster, but also more widespread ...

In Network World’s first hands-on assessment of the new 10G Ethernet switches, we put boxes from five major vendors through a comprehensive set of performance tests – both 1 and 10 Gigabit flavors of ...

For the past few newsletters we’ve been reporting on the findings of Kubernan’s Metro Ethernet State-of-the-Market report. As a result of this we received a communication from Keao Caindec, chief ...

Although cameras equipped with PoE (Power over Ethernet) have appeared in the last couple of years, the interface is new in frame grabbers, according to Neil Chen, product manager for vision products ...

Only a few years ago, the speed race in network connectivity was a battle between Ethernet's 10mbps transmission rate and Token-Ring's 16mbps. Even though the difference between the two was relatively ...

What is the minimum size of an Ethernet frame that carries an IP packet which in turn carries an ICMP packet? What is the maximum size? The minimum size of an ...