What is Ethernet?
Ethernet is a certain type of a local area network (LAN) which was developed in 1972 in the renowned PARC-research facility of Xerox in Palo Alto by Robert Metcalfe. Ethernet is a standard communications protocol used to connect devices including computers, routers, and switches in a wired or wireless network. As a data-link layer protocol in the TCP/IP stack, Ethernet describes how network devices can format and transmit data packets so other devices on the same local or campus area network segment can recognize , receive and process them. Ethernet was originally standardized as IEEE 802.3 with a data transmission rate of 10 Mb/s. Newer versions of Ethernet were introduced lately to offer higher data rates. In today's Gigabit Ethernet supports speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps. Though it's currently limited to businesses on the cutting edge of the tech world, 10 Gigabit Ethernet with speeds of up to 10,000 Mbps is also on the way. The basic terminologies used