Types of Ethernet

Types of Ethernet

As mentioned earlier, Ethernet provides various data rates with different physical layouts. A variety of Ethernet types have come and gone over the years, such as the following:

• 10BASE5 (Thicknet)

• 10BASE2 (Thinnet)

• 10BASE-FL

• 10BASE-T

In the mid 1990s, 100BASE-T (unshielded twisted-pair [UTP]) and 100BASE-FX (using fiber) were ubiquitous in the enterprise network, and they still are. Since the start of the millennium, enterprise networks have actively implemented Gigabit Ethernet, 1000BASE-T, in their network. The push for today is 10 Gbps in the core of the enterprise network.