{"id":4418,"date":"2011-06-10T21:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T21:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wireie.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:30:49","slug":"ethernet-seamless-connectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wireie.com\/2011\/06\/10\/ethernet-seamless-connectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethernet: Seamless Connectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4418\" class=\"elementor elementor-4418\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1b0dd41f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1b0dd41f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7152df5f\" data-id=\"7152df5f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ecf96b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ecf96b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 10-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>WireIE\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150615082824\/http:\/\/www2.wireie.com:80\/l\/2562\/2011-05-02\/ALLI7\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Transparent Ethernet Solutions\u2122<\/a>\u00a0give carriers new and innovative ways to tap into hard-to-reach markets. And because TES scales so well, carriers are also discovering they can use TES to provide broadband services to enterprises where ROIs were previously prohibitive using antiquated leased facilities.WireIE is a Carrier Ethernet network operator and our TES solutions are backed up by an SLA.<\/p><p>Ethernet is ubiquitous. It\u2019s in our businesses, schools, hospitals and homes. It\u2019s in our cars, and it\u2019s even the nerve system for the latest\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.airliners.net\/aircraft-data\/stats.main?id=29\" target=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">fly-by-wire<\/a>\u00a0airliners. Ethernet dominates in the datacenters where Internet and World Wide Web content is stored and served. Few would dispute that our modern world of communications runs on Ethernet.<\/p><p>Why Ethernet? In a few words; seamless, universal connectivity\u2026 There are certainly many secondary advantages, but this \u2018plug and play\u2019 aspect makes Ethernet particularly compelling when compared with other methods.<\/p><p>A wise person once said; \u201cYou need to know where you\u2019ve been in order to know where you\u2019re going.\u201d Ethernet has been around a long time, but it\u2019s entree into the world of telecommunications is fairly recent.<br \/>Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) was developed in the mid 1970s by Xerox. It was largely based on the Aloha system developed at the University of Hawaii.<\/p><p>AlohaNet, as it was called, used UHF radio as a data communications network medium. Transmission of packets across the radio channel was managed by Aloha\u2019s random access contention algorithm. In the event of two (or more) data packets being sent on the same communication channel at the same instant, a collision occurs, the packets get corrupted, and no data is exchanged. Aloha manages this inevitability through the use of a random access timer. Should a collision be detected, a jam signal is sent over the network, notifying all other devices of the collision and to wait before sending further packets. The senders affected by the collision will then set a random self-timer to resume transmission, thus reducing the likelihood of a repeat collision. This mechanism is known as Collision Detection (CD).<\/p><p>To compliment CD, Ethernet uses a mechanism known as Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) \u2013 commonly referred to as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1092768\" target=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">CSMA\/CD<\/a>. Combined with the benefits of Collision Detection, the CSMA function stipulates that sending data communications equipment must \u2018listen\u2019 to the channel prior to transmitting a packet.<\/p><p>In the early days of Local Area Networking, Ethernet competed with IBM\u2019s Token Ring networking standard. Considered very efficient in many types of network configurations, Token Ring still fell into obscurity as most leading vendors other than IBM placed their loyalties in Ethernet. The galvanizer was the IEEE\u2019s pursuit of a single LAN standard which for a number of reasons went to Ethernet in 1982. Global approval of Ethernet as IEEE 802.3 was granted in 1984.<\/p><p>In the ensuing years, Ethernet has become ubiquitous. This ubiquity has led to powerful network hardware at incredibly low prices \u2013 all in an ever shrinking form factor per unit performance. The vast majority of Internet services are hosted on Ethernet networks, as are the user communities linking to those services.<\/p><p>Now a mature, universal Local Area Network (LAN) access standard, hardware supporting Ethernet (Switches and Network Interface Cards etc.) is commoditized and as such comparatively inexpensive and largely self-configuring. The entire TCP\/IP suite is seamlessly supported by Ethernet, carried on various media ranging from CAT5e cable to fiber to digital microwave\/radio.<\/p><p>In the next installment we\u2019ll look at the evolution of Ethernet. 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And because TES scales so well, carriers are also discovering they can use TES to provide broadband services to enterprises where ROIs were previously prohibitive using antiquated leased facilities.WireIE is a Carrier Ethernet network operator and our TES solutions are backed up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,81],"tags":[151,152,153,154,155,146,156,157],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ethernet: Seamless Connectivity - WireIE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wireie.com\/2011\/06\/10\/ethernet-seamless-connectivity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ethernet: Seamless Connectivity - WireIE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WireIE\u2019s\u00a0Transparent Ethernet Solutions\u2122\u00a0give carriers new and innovative ways to tap into hard-to-reach markets. 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