Chapter 6. Ethernet
Ethernet will play a very important role in home networking. It can be directly installed within a room with a bunch of twisted pair patch cables or in a house with home run wired Category 5 twisted pair cables. Furthermore, other existing wiring–based home networking systems are also based on the Ethernet frame format and the Media Access and Control protocol. Operation principles of wireless Ethernet and its home networking variations are very close to that of the original Ethernet. The concept of Ethernet was originated by Bob Metcalfe and his Xerox PARC colleagues in late 1972 to interconnect personal workstations. Their first experimental network was called the Alto Aloha Network. In 1973, Metcalfe changed the name to ...
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