Ethernet standards

Ethernet is the de facto technology that is used on all modern LANs within organizations. Ethernet helps both end devices and networking devices to communicate over both a wired and wireless network infrastructure using various networking protocols and standards. As you may recall, protocols are simply the rules, procedures, and methodologies that are used to govern how information and data are sent across a network between systems.

As with all technologies in the world, various Ethernet standards are maintained by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) that define how communication occurs across a wired network, whether the network media is copper or fiber optic cables. The IEEE 802.3 standard is used on LANs for communication and there are many variants of this standard. Each variant specifies the type of media used for communication between devices and the support speed/bandwidth of the interface of a device.

Since the IEEE 802.3 standard...