GIGABIT ETHERNET for metro area networks

• Main Author: Bedell, Paul (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York McGraw-Hill 2003; ©2003
• Series: McGraw-Hill networking professional
• Subjects: Ethernet (Local area network system); Gigabit communications; Metropolitan area networks (Computer networks)
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• Physical Description: xxi, 329 pages illustrations, map. 24cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-317) and index
• ISBN: 0071393897; 9780071393898

Gigabit Ethernet has been deployed in the metro space, providing low cost, easily managed bandwidth for intensive applications like video, storage, and ASPs. 10 Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE 802.3a) will make the use of Ethernet in the Metro area even more attractive. IDC projects that GigE revenues in the U.S., marked at $155 million in 2001, will grow at 36.7% per year over the next five years, to $741 million in 2006