Fast Ethernet vs. Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Asked By Drey Milby 40 points N/A Posted on - 03/23/2012

 

What is the difference between a Fast ethernet switch and a Gigabit ethernet switch?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two?

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Answered By tariqaqureshi 0 points N/A #119652

Fast Ethernet vs. Gigabit Ethernet Switch

The Fast Ethernet  is used to label the Ethernet operations that transmit traffic at the minimal 100Mbit/s over the original  10Mbit/s while the Gigabit Ethernet is used to describe several technologies for conducting Ethernet frames on Gigabit/sec rate.

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Answered By Abel Tonja 5 points N/A #119653

Fast Ethernet vs. Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Gigabit Ethernet switch is upgrade version of Fast Ethernet Switch. Fast Ethernet has 100 mbps speed. And Gigabit Ethernet switch has 1000 mbps (1gbps) speed. The only difference b/w them is of only speed.

 

 

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