GIGABIT ETHERNET

[LAMHING2378]

I was advised that gigabit oer Ethernet will only send and receive data at 500Mb/s and the overall transfer rate of sending and receiving is 1000Mb/s. Where can I confirm the above info. is correct ?

[Georg Pauwen]

Hello,

there is an interesting article at the link below, which talks about throughput for Gigabit Ethernet. It appears that, taking Ethernet framing and protocol stack overhead into consideration, a thoughtput of 225-240Mbytes (in bits that would be x 8) can be achieved. But in order to get (almost) wire speed, that is, 1000Mbit in each direction, a 2Ghz CPU is necessary...

Check the link, and scroll down to 'Tech Tips':

http://www.dssnetworks.com/v3/TechBlast.asp?Issue=01_03_2003

HTH,

GP