Fiber Gigabit Ethernet
The first physical media available at 1 gigabit was the fiber media. This media allows Ethernet to stretch to the one-kilometer range using fiber-optic cable.
The first interface introduced to provide the 1-gigabit capability was the Sun Gigabit Ethernet adapter, vge. This was quickly followed by the ge interface, which was then followed by the high-performance ce interface. This section describes these interfaces in detail and explains how they can be best utilized to maximize the performance of the network that they drive or are simply part of.
Figure 5-30. Typical vge and ge MMF External Connectors
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