Fast Ethernet vs. Gigabit Ethernet Switch
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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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What is the difference between a Fast ethernet switch and a Gigabit ethernet switch?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the two?
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.
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.